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Recent Examples of patchy
The clip shows an animal with patchy black fur, a red face, and long, thin arms, seemingly eating something off the ground.
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Kelli Bender, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The South Bay region will hold steady in the low 70s, and coastal regions will stick in the 60s and have patchy clouds through Memorial Day, according to the weather service.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
The storm is expected to pass, leaving light rain and patchy drizzle, on Friday, Pederson said.
—Isabella O’Malley, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
Trains stopped in their tracks, stranding thousands of commuters, and internet and cellular coverage became patchy.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 16 May 2025
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Kelli Bender, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The South Bay region will hold steady in the low 70s, and coastal regions will stick in the 60s and have patchy clouds through Memorial Day, according to the weather service.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
The storm is expected to pass, leaving light rain and patchy drizzle, on Friday, Pederson said.
—Isabella O’Malley, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
Trains stopped in their tracks, stranding thousands of commuters, and internet and cellular coverage became patchy.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patchy
Adjective
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Elsewhere, though, anxiety permeates the dilapidated bars, karaoke clubs, and music halls into which Jia pokes his camera.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
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In Los Angeles, $500,000 gets you a dilapidated hut in the hood with a permanent police siren soundtrack.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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Select a faded flower and follow the stem down, cutting it 12 inches or more below the bloom, deep into the plant to encourage more long stems.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 June 2025
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Some geckos have higher contrast in their coloring, while others appear more faded.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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It’s then loaded into a taco or burrito with purple cabbage, lettuce, shredded cheese, pico de gallo and customers’ choice of sauce.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2025
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The slim tortilla bundles filled with crispy or grilled chicken, shredded cheese, and ranch or honey mustard dressing were discontinued in 2016, leaving fans in mourning.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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Davis was more or less rocking his signature look — a red Adidas tracksuit, hair in mangy dreads.—
Ed Masley,
The Arizona Republic,
4 Oct. 2024
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His Orlok is more feral and red-blooded than previous iterations, appearing swathed in ursine furs and accompanied by mangy curs.—
Celia Mattison,
Vulture,
27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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If your outdoor rug is looking a little dingy, or worse, a little soap and water and some spot-cleaning can get rid of grime and stains and get it back to a presentable state.—
Karen Grossman,
Southern Living,
24 June 2025
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Rain and seasonal climate can leave your home's exterior – including concrete, decking, walkways, patios, steps and more – dingy.—
Nora Colomer
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28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Patel didn’t say much about the plans to move the FBI headquarters, something prior FBI directors and Congress acknowledged needed to be done because of the decrepit condition of the building.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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Barring a sudden increase in foreign aid — say, if Russia decides to ramp up its oil shipments to Cuba in response to escalating tensions with the United States over Ukraine — Cuba’s crisis could bring about unprecedented challenges to its decrepit regime.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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But the story is lumpy too, its mechanical interweaving of Shakespeare and Disney somehow both predictable and holey.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
24 Oct. 2021
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In a 2018 Frontiers in Psychiatry case study, a girl with trypophobia reported being triggered by seeds on bread, polka dot or animal prints, holey cheese, and honeycomb.—
Natasha Lavender,
SELF,
26 July 2019
Adjective
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The brand launched a fireworks-display-worth of flavors in cans with Technicolor illustrations that look like a 1980s suburban mall fever dream, evoking tacky Gen X nostalgia brands like LA Gear, Ocean Pacific and Camp Beverly Hills.—
Liza Weisstuch,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 June 2025
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While other personal lubricants of this nature get sticky or tacky fairly quickly, Lelo's formula simply doesn’t.—
Amanda Chatel,
Wired News,
7 June 2025
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“Patchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patchy. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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