makeshift
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Feygin’s mother grew up in Belarus, where she built a makeshift bathhouse from a tarp and generated steam with a woodstove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Reckitt originally ran these streams using customer-service reps out of a makeshift conference room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
McDaniel is not only trying to rally his troops, but he’s also working to maximize his makeshift offensive line’s strengths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
For families without vehicles, reaching it can mean muddy tracks, a makeshift bamboo stretcher or a motorcycle - and a day's lost wages.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Wielding their makeshift weapons, Velia, Delia, and Juanita surrounded the chupacabras.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
Until it got them it could only stand by and watch traffic be hamstrung by overnight dashes into sheltered harbors, by limited convoys, by other makeshifts that sadly slowed the pulse of United Nations commerce.
From Time Magazine Archive
On account of lack of space and the cost it is inadvisable to use this in a mending room, and makeshifts are generally necessary.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
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