makeshift
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Between photo shoots, she sits on a green room couch in a makeshift makeup area, the morning already filled with obligations: a news conference, cameras, questions about what comes next.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
“Well, you could add it to your makeshift lasagna, for health and longevity.”
From Slate • May 6, 2026
Latecomers squeezed into makeshift rows of plastic folding chairs or stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the foyer, peering through glass doors.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
At a makeshift morgue in Khartoum, engineer turned mortician Ali Gebbai clicked through a spreadsheet of the dead.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
With a pair of kitchen tongs, Simon lifted the cannibal book from a vat of bubbling liquid that sat upon a makeshift stove, fashioned out of Bunsen burners from the Swanburne laboratory.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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