patchwork quilt

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Recent Examples of patchwork quilt And even better, the green patchwork quilt of the Scottish countryside stretched out below, as the plane drifted down from the clouds. Nathan Tavares, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2025 The cutouts made the shorter fence look like a patchwork quilt. Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 26 May 2025 Areas such as Sindh are known for reuse of textiles in a mix of practical and cultural traditions, such as patchwork quilts called Rilli, made by stitching together old clothes into colorful patterns. Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 3 Apr. 2025 Rather than message directly from one phone app to another, these messages are routed across a patchwork quilt of cellular networks in the same way as cellular calls. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for patchwork quilt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for patchwork quilt
Noun
  • Here, she's seen performing on her variety show, which featured a number of famous guests and her own musical medleys.
    Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • These launch providers are racing a medley of Chinese rocket builders to become the second company to land and reuse a first stage booster.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mafbeanl Rocket Launcher for Kids Future NASA engineers and rocket scientists can explore a variety of STEM concepts in this engaging activity kit.
    Anja Webb, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Once connected, Spotify can be used in a variety of contexts.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The storage fee is based on the size of the product, the number of cubic feet the seller’s assortment requires and the time those products spend in an Amazon warehouse.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Broadview, Illinois — About a dozen protesters remain after clashes with an assortment of law enforcement agencies came to a head outside the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Chicago.
    Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.
    Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • In a collage, Beyoncé gave fans a closer look inside the birthday bash, showcasing the decor as well as snapshots of attendees and performers like Stevie Wonder.
    Caché McClay, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The Aquitaine countryside unfolds in a collage of khaki, tan, and green, dotted with little ponds and copses of trees.
    Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s everything from 19th-century crazy quilts to vintage napkins, even a bag of stretchy strings.
    Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 6 June 2025
  • Without saying so explicitly, Gottlieb nailed the biggest challenge that the L.A. teams, and probably all four of the West Coast additions to the Big Ten, have faced all season, a crazy quilt schedule and insane travel.
    Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Most of your followers don't care about your alphabet soup.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • An alphabet soup of left-wing social activist groups manned booths at Monday’s rally, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Denver Communists and Colorado Indivisible.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025

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