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patch

noun as in piece, spot, area

noun as in piece applied to cover a gap or lack

verb as in fix, mend

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A spinoff from the university is commercializing the patch with federal funding.

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Certain geographic patches inside America’s general footprint were not fully American soil.

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Employees at the $183 billion Silicon Valley giant have developed a bizarre fascination with alligator Claude, who lives nearby in a patch of swampland at San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences.

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In addition to being noisy, the superwide rubber can trammel a bit over patched and imperfect highway surfaces.

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The surfers were already out at a local spot known as the “patch.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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