patchwork

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Bettencourt, chair of the Senate Committee on Local Government, later defended the letter in an interview, arguing Texas could not allow counties to block growth with “a crazy patchwork quilt” of regulations.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

The result is a patchwork of wildly unequal and inadequate representation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

The patchwork of velvet fields fill again with lambs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Such patchwork schemes are typical in UK cities.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

By the end of the first millennium a.d., agriculture was spreading rapidly and the region was becoming an unusual patchwork of communities, each with its preferred terrain, way of subsistence, and cultural style.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann