patching up
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A woman who runs a local dry cleaner said most of her business became patching up uniforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
In traditional Franco-German style, both sides are now publicly patching up and putting on the mandatory common front.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2024
They are becoming the team proverbially patching up one hole only to see another develop.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Navy rescue and salvage ship, pulled into a port in India’s southeast this summer, the job at hand was patching up the aging vessel.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Maddie was going off duty by the time the ambulance men had finished hurriedly patching up the German pilot and brought him into the ground floor office of the control tower.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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