cobble

Example Sentences

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She comes only once a week, paid for by whatever funds the clinic can cobble together.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

Instead, policymakers have had to rely on an array of private data and state administrative records—as well as regional bank surveys and research—to cobble together a picture of the U.S. economy.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

“There would be huge pressure to call another snap legislative election if his efforts to cobble together a government and find support for a budget were to fail again,” the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Without Socialist involvement in the next government, Lecornu's best hope is to cobble together a revitalised centrist cabinet with the Republicans - known as the socle commun - or common platform.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

He is taught to write letters that hang from a bar, and eventually to cobble these intricate shapes into his name.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri