patch
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Professional investors have thoughts on this generally rough patch for stocks.
From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026
AI models have advanced rapidly in recent months, and companies including Anthropic have given some firms advanced access to their newest models to allow them time to patch security holes that the models can discover.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Police effectively asked Google to look through a vast archive of human movement and identify which lives intersected with a particular patch of pavement at a particular moment in time.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
Known as "the jungle", the camp is a scrubby patch of land beside a road and a railway line.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Dusty, their big brown dog, ran up to greet Sal and me and led us to the vegetable patch, where Jeb was riding herd on a whole pack of Austins.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 2
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 5
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