jury-rigged
Example Sentences
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A look in the vehicle’s trunk revealed how the automaker jury-rigged a run-of-the-mill sport-utility vehicle to run with Wayve’s technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Some A/Cs, like the one I’m testing, rest on jury-rigged hardware-store brackets; others lean on stacks of wood, or brick, or, in one case, a rock—their owners improvising to keep cool.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2023
The entire film feels jury-rigged as if every action sequence — and there are too few of them — is designed by an algorithm rather than a human.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2023
This is not to be confused with Greater Los Angeles, often called the Southland, five far-flung counties in Southern California jury-rigged into a single cultural unit.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
Everyone in the neighborhood was so full of their own cleverness at having jury-rigged a solution to the Tap-Out.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
