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Example Sentences

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“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

"So how do you take those events, make them meaningful in their own right, but cobble them together in a competitive model?"

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025

Three governments in France have collapsed in less than a year, as they struggled to cobble together support in the fragmented National Assembly to pass a budget and narrow France’s widening deficit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

The company is starting to cobble together the equipment it needs for these power plants, but so far it’s an ambitious vision without much physical progress.

From Barron's • Sep. 30, 2025

When she finally got a fire going, she set about trying to cobble together an evening meal for Harry and the boys.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown