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makeshift

adjective as in temporary

noun as in temporary help

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Not bad for a team without a recognised striker, with injuries to key players like Kai Havertz, Gabriel, and Gabriel Jesus and with makeshift striker Mikel Merino playing as a false nine.

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It comes after the Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi threw hot oil at officers and stabbed them with makeshift weapons at the prison on Saturday.

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The car park of the Ponderosa bar and restaurant has become a makeshift command centre for the fire service.

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Volker Türk told the UN Security Council that Israeli operations in the north had killed hundreds of people, destroyed entire refugee camps and makeshift medical sites, and displaced more than 40,000 Palestinians.

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That impulse translated into nights developing stock in a makeshift darkroom Lanthimos rigged in his Budapest apartment’s bathroom.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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