patchwork
Example Sentences
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Flopears wore a patchwork shirt made out of old Bull Durham sacks.
From Literature
She criticised the council for their pothole repairs, calling them "patchwork".
From BBC
The company says its self-driving Cybercab—which has no steering wheel or pedals—will begin mass production in April, though a patchwork of state and local regulations could stand in the way.
The problem it soon identified was that the PGA Tour’s schedule was a patchwork of field sizes and formats.
Currently, driverless taxi fleets face a patchwork of state and local regulations; Musk has called this “incredibly painful” for the deployment of autonomous vehicles, and has pushed for a nationwide framework instead.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
