makeshift
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Next to a roundabout, a field had become a makeshift cemetery for fighters.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Walking down a makeshift runway in a top-floor studio, a model pulls on a translucent, hooded jacket embedded with LED lights.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
During the hottest hours, many retreat to makeshift huts -- frames of sticks draped with coarse homespun cloth, plastered with wild donkey dung.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
A makeshift forward-operating base was set up inside Iran and used in the mission to rescue the U.S. airmen whose plane went down in early April.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
People in Leningrad also worked frantically to build makeshift defenses.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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