jury-rigged
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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
These are not the jury-rigged e-bikes that deliver Chinese food in Manhattan.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2023
At the time, many were wearing little more than surgical masks or homemade ones jury-rigged from used clothing.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2022
Nearby, other creations by Graves — part jury-rigged home science experiments, part occultist altars — included religious figurines, medical models, electrical audio gizmos, and tangles of wires and pipes.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022
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
