jury-rigged
Example Sentences
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While Stellantis used six cameras for the jury-rigged Grand Cherokees, the vehicles available for purchase in 2028 will sport 10 cameras and five radars, giving Wayve’s AI more data to rely on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
He’s jury-rigged a burglar alarm with foam so it makes a clattering sound loud enough for the neighbor’s Ring camera to pick up, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2025
It is cherry-picked and jury-rigged, co-opted and corrupted, and yet it remains inextricable from American identity — which is precisely why it repeatedly finds its way into our fiction.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
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
This is something I've done a few times before, but never with a jury-rigged mess like this.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
