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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Rangers were physically and creatively on top, but there's always a feeling that one goal needed to become two to halt Celtic's assumed purple patch, a response that never came.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 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

But this isn’t just a deserted patch of sand.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Was the parrot—this thespian parrot, impersonating a pirate’s parrot, with a miniature costume eye patch covering one beady little bird eye—was this talented avian of the stage howling?

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Bright reddish-orange patches near the base resemble glowing eyes, adding to its demon-like appearance.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 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

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

As his breathing evened out, his skin started to return to its usual deep brown in patches, like a watercolor shifting around, searching for the right shade and texture.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

He then instructed me to pull back into the driveway and patched the tire for me on the spot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

Carlini had reported the bug to Ghost’s developers, who patched it on Feb. 16, weeks before Carlini’s San Francisco talk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

"The second thing is that even with existing weaknesses that we know about, but organisations might not have patched against, might not be well defended against, it's just a really good hacker," he said.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

I took a roll of dark tape from the hall closet and patched the hole in Stick’s jacket with a wide X. Then I slipped it on.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

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

Naomi looked up from the shirt she was patching to see the twins hovering in the doorway from the hall.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez