patch
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"The fans are just brutal here," said Guercio, who remembers a 2000s rough patch marked by six straight seasons without a playoff berth and the "dirt chanting" directed at coach Isiah Thomas.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
“Red flags emerged over the past month, pointing to a soft patch ahead for the S&P 500 index and for tech,” Subramanian and her team said in a client note.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
The skin on both heels and a patch below my right pinkie had worn away, leaving behind angry pink abrasions.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Rapid advances in frontier AI models, like Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, also have many companies worried that hackers will be able to identify vulnerabilities several times faster than cybersecurity teams can patch them.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
She knelt, surveying a patch of mushroom pulp.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing patch
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 2
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 5
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