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patch

[pach] / pætʃ /


NOUN
piece applied to cover a gap or lack
Synonyms


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The tribute featured photos of the sisters as kids at a pumpkin patch and celebrating Kramer’s birthday at a Japanese steakhouse.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

Called the Grasshopper Club, members get a plaque, patch, pin and a coin.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The nearly weeklong event takes place on a sun-blasted, nearly six-square-mile patch of a 200-mile Pleistocene-era lakebed in Nevada, and is a place of extremes, with very cold nights and hot days.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

She explained in the adjoining caption how she had "slipped on a muddy patch on the steep path", while walking back with her family following her birthday celebrations.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

The mist in the grove was blue now, and a patch of the darkness changed.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Rather than forming one solid coral wall, the reef appears to consist of separate coral patches growing on rocky sections of the seabed where conditions are suitable.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

The Tennessee Volunteers will honor Dolly Parton with sticker patches on their football helmets all season.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

The idea is to let firefighters reach areas that hadn’t been checked by bomb-disposal teams so they can cut firebreaks and douse strategic patches of land to protect key areas.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

"The sheets I laid, the quilts I covered, and the clothes I wore were all covered with piles of patches," said Xu.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

He’s wearing a leather jacket with over a dozen patches sewn onto its sleeves.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The Dodgers patched two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani’s absence from the starting rotation with a pseudo-bullpen day on Friday.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

The confinement structure is temporarily patched, and Ukraine seeks $580 million for repairs to prevent irreversible corrosion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

They are patched through to them from payphones in Evin prison via the Foreign Office, which has described their incarceration as "appalling" and "unjustifiable".

From BBC May 1, 2026

Last year, Firefox patched 73 bugs that it rated as either high severity or critical.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

Helena has presented Dziusia and Janek with her ball, the one Mr. Szymczak patched, that Max brought on his back to Tatarska while trying not to be shot.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

That’s where the group’s volunteers work in concert with Southern California Gas crews patching the scores of potholes created by extreme nature, not by radial tires.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

The move is aimed at patching up a looming funding gap in the country’s public healthcare system.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

"But the reality is, for most local authorities, they have to do the patching because of constraints on their funding."

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

"We need as many hands on our body, patching all the wounds," she said.

From Barron's Jan. 30, 2026

Maddie was going off duty by the time the ambulance men had finished hurriedly patching up the German pilot and brought him into the ground floor office of the control tower.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein




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