patchwork

Example Sentences

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Pritzker said in a statement after unveiling the legislation earlier this year: “For too long, a patchwork of local restrictions have made it too difficult and expensive to build and buy housing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

A short walk along an irrigation canal leads to a weathered observation deck rising two stories above a patchwork of saturated flats where saltgrass, iodine bush and cattail take root.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Instead, liquid water likely interacted with different parts of the asteroid under varying conditions, creating a patchwork of chemical environments.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

The film portrays a rural Hungary made up of a patchwork of poor villages, home especially to the country's large Roma minority.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

We passed what I thought must have been a black wrought iron fence, but it was almost impossible to see, trapped as it was beneath what looked to be raggedy, patchwork blanket.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken