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patch

[pach] / pætʃ /


NOUN
piece applied to cover a gap or lack
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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

He netted six goals in five games during a purple patch just before Christmas.

From BBC • 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

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

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz




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