stopgap
Example Sentences
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In the immediate term, America needs the equivalent of those retired cops and off-duty sheriffs from 1976—principled leaders who step up as a stopgap for the most urgent challenges.
Meanwhile, inflation figures will be skewed by the agency’s stopgap: Without good data for October, the BLS appears to have penciled in a 0% increase that month.
He scrounged together stopgap university funding and outside donations to keep the operation running “on fumes,” vowing “to go down swinging.”
From Salon
There have been reports that Apple is in talks with Alphabet and start-up Anthropic to use their AI models, fine-tuned for Apple hardware, as a stopgap until the company can create its own high-performing models.
From Barron's
The appointment is widely seen as a stopgap because of Nelson’s advanced age of 76 and his lack of experience in Asia, where the London-based bank makes a lot of its revenue.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
