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The storied company is struggling with a costly shift to electric vehicles at a time of patchy demand while intense Chinese competition eats away at market share.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

"The reality is that the existing treatment services, from behavioural support to weight-loss medications and bariatric surgery, remain patchy and unequal."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Asian Games in Japan will close later Sunday after a fortnight of record-smashing displays from young stars, but marred by mix-ups, patchy crowds and accusations of mismanagement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Loss-making companies that go public have an especially patchy record, according to University of Florida professor Jay Ritter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But he thrust his patchy tail well out of sight and turned his little pointy, chinless face to the future.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

However, the wet weather is expected to be much patchier further south and east with large swathes of England and Wales forecast to see just a few millimetres at most.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

"In some catchments where permafrost has become patchier, weathering-driven carbon uptake was large enough to offset or even exceed river CO2 emissions."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026

And returns on investment have been patchier because of its aggressive spending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Surveillance outside of farms was even patchier than on them, and bird flu tests have been hard to get.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

Despite being undead, he’d grown into adulthood: his fur patchier, his whiskers more snarled, his eye socket wider.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The true severity of the problem isn’t always easy to ascertain, because, almost by definition, things tend to be worst in the places where record-keeping is patchiest.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2015

The Collegiate Chorale lent the music an epic quality; still, its twinkling palette aside, this was the patchiest and least satisfying of the distillations.

From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2011

It didn’t take long for her to select the most crooked, most pathetic, patchiest pine tree in the bunch.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

Closely confined between the Rockies to the right and the Selkirks to the west, the river held undeviatingly to its general northwesterly course, with only the patchiest of flats on either side.

From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman