makeshift
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About 60 volunteers with clipboards spread out over Hollywood on Tuesday morning to count every tent, makeshift shelter, lived-in vehicle and obviously homeless person.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
The group began conducting flights over the Straits of Florida, searching for makeshift boats carrying Cuban migrants.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Located in the city center, the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater became a makeshift bomb shelter in the immediate days after the invasion, housing up to 1,500 Mariupoltsi pursuing refuge.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Walking down a makeshift runway in a top-floor studio, a model pulls on a translucent, hooded jacket embedded with LED lights.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
Spread in a blurry mountain across the face of the makeshift shrine at Tariq Johnson's murder site.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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