makeshift
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Dozens of women sit in groups on the dusty ground of the makeshift compound, many wearing brightly coloured hijabs.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Focaccia has become de facto sandwich bread or makeshift pizza crust elsewhere in Italy, but it tends to be bare bones in Genoa, where it has been made since the Middle Ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
A handful of sellers gather in front of the burnt-out shell offering tomatoes, cheese and cured meets on makeshift tables.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The 2026 Homeless Count recorded just 27 unhoused individuals in 16 dwellings, such as vehicles, tents or makeshift shelters, in Malibu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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
Further, our saddle and bridle are as yet mere makeshifts: would steed and trappings stand the strain of war?
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard
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