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His patch is on top of an empty water tank, where he spreads out a sheet and arranges two pillows.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

You find him on the official state seal, and if you get nabbed speeding on the freeway, there he is, embroidered on the CHP officer’s uniform patch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

His great-grandfather moved to the village and used a patch of land in the nearby peninsula for grazing, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

This allows the patch to influence deep areas of the brain involved in sleep while also monitoring the brain's response.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

I am the top of this food chain—at least here in this patch of forest.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Looking across the city, only a few patches of light survive, scattered in the gloom.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

With the technological abilities of modern cameras, including those on your phone, you can take good pictures of eclipses and other solar activity like sunspots, which look like dark patches on the Sun's surface.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Wooden baskets swinging behind them, the Flemings and Schifferles darted between trees, dug through patches of ivy and peered beneath shrubs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The president then turned his attention to Washington’s federal parks, complaining about patches of dead grass and offering advice about how they should be maintained.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

The patches above my eyebrows are spreading down past my temples.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

“The vest is patched to show the wear from the guitar strap.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

The Liberal Party leader said both parties had patched up with an agreement that neither party could overturn decisions taken by the coalition's joint "shadow cabinet" of senior lawmakers.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

You could see where the holes in his sole had been patched up with sap and scavenged leather.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

As frontier models automate vulnerability discovery at machine scale, security chiefs scramble to automate patching before hackers weaponize flaws.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The government says the aim of these new measures is to encourage full road resurfacing rather than short-term patching.

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

We kids tried patching the roof on our own with tar paper, tinfoil, wood, and Elmer’s glue, but no matter what we did, the water found its way through.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls