patchy
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Almost all of Pereira was left without electricity, and the cell network is patchy at best.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
In the meantime, remaining markets offer patchy selections of fruits and vegetables.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Factor in the patchy phone service that often occurs at large events, and getting lost is almost inevitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
"Agenting is everyone's dream, but we haven't reached there yet," as the performance of AI agent tools is still often patchy, Kaur said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
“You want us to wait? Would you sit on your hands if it were your child?” shouted a man with a patchy blond beard.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
However, the wet weather is expected to be much patchier further south and east with large swathes of England and Wales forecast to see just a few millimetres at most.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
"In some catchments where permafrost has become patchier, weathering-driven carbon uptake was large enough to offset or even exceed river CO2 emissions."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
Things are patchier in the condo market. Realtor.com reports significant price increases in neighborhoods such as the Financial District-adjacent enclave Jackson Square.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Surveillance outside of farms was even patchier than on them, and bird flu tests have been hard to get.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
Despite being undead, he’d grown into adulthood: his fur patchier, his whiskers more snarled, his eye socket wider.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The true severity of the problem isn’t always easy to ascertain, because, almost by definition, things tend to be worst in the places where record-keeping is patchiest.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2015
The Collegiate Chorale lent the music an epic quality; still, its twinkling palette aside, this was the patchiest and least satisfying of the distillations.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2011
It didn’t take long for her to select the most crooked, most pathetic, patchiest pine tree in the bunch.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
Closely confined between the Rockies to the right and the Selkirks to the west, the river held undeviatingly to its general northwesterly course, with only the patchiest of flats on either side.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
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