makeshift
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They do all of this not only from this tropical city’s streets but more importantly from their makeshift headquarters: Ecuador’s prison system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Around 65% of the population, about 1.4 million people, now live in tents or makeshift shelters, the UN says.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Across this scarred landscape of abandoned farm fields and derelict villages are thousands of infantrymen, like Vlasenko, scattered in ones and twos, sheltering in makeshift bunkers—the humans in a robot war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Even a sequence of testimonials during a makeshift mid-protest hearing, though well-written and well-acted, feels rushed for impact rather than finessed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
As their fuel ran low, they flew to the makeshift staging area at Toutle High School, refueled, and took off again.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Afghan refugee and photographer Abdul Saboor poses for Reuters as he takes pictures in a makeshifts migrant camp in Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk, France, December 4, 2021.
From Reuters ● Dec. 8, 2021
Awkward staging makeshifts had to be employed instead, resulting in hundreds of audience members leaving the theatre every night scratching their heads.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2013
These two are not makeshifts but attacking bowlers for turning tracks.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2011
The five weeklies, which do much to mold British intellectual opinion, were forbidden such makeshifts as mimeographed sheets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jars are makeshifts, though useful makeshifts: and small beer will not keep in them for much more than a week.
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
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