makeshift
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Next to a roundabout, a field had become a makeshift cemetery for fighters.
From BBC • May 13, 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
Its trunk is jammed with short sticks, forming a makeshift ladder that she still climbs each summer to raid beehives.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
Between photo shoots, she sits on a green room couch in a makeshift makeup area, the morning already filled with obligations: a news conference, cameras, questions about what comes next.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
After pushing and dragging the planes through mud and slush—“almost carrying them in our hands,” said Larisa Rozanova—the young women got the eight Po-2s onto a makeshift runway made of logs.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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