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Other children at the shelter kick a ball around while their parents make use of food donations to cobble together meals for their little ones.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

But if you’re doing it on your own, you can cobble together all of this information and put it in a spreadsheet.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

Most parents lose sleep over the amount of piecemeal work required to cobble together a summer schedule; very few relish the planning and spreadsheets and carpool rota involved in keeping their kids safe and occupied.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

“In my opinion, the time has come to no longer just try and cobble together programs here and there just to get by,” Alvarez said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

At least, that's what Lloyd, the older boy that used to cobble shoes back at Rose Hill, told me they looked like.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

At night, the narrow cobbled streets of Old Havana are enveloped in inky black, devoid of power and virtually deserted.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Needing new material for their 1981 tour, the Stones cobbled together “Tattoo You” from leftovers and half-finished songs dating back to “Goats Head Soup.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

"It's kind of a Frankenstein's monster of a policy change that's been kind of cobbled together," he said.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

The summer of 1886 found the artist in Honfleur, whose historic character and cobbled streets had long made it a haunt for painters, including the Impressionists, and tourists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

But with my bit of Elfian and gestures and laughter, we cobbled together a language understood by all.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

Their company has been prolific at cobbling together oil-rich acreage and flipping it to other energy producers in multibillion-dollar deals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Belgium's complex political system means that De Wever is well versed in the art of painstaking negotiations and cobbling together compromise deals.

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

It was essentially cobbling together a Frankenstein résumé from leftover pieces of information harvested from my search history, and passing it off as my own work experience.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025

Time is tight and the bar is high – cobbling together 80 people willing to back you in a handful of days isn't easy.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

So he did his first experiment at the University of Utah by cobbling together about $30 in parts.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel