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Recent Examples of slapdash But without state licenses, the shops were playing by their own set of rules — no testing, slapdash labeling, no taxes — which even the staunchest legalization advocates feared could choke out the nascent legal industry. Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024 The internet tends to flatten all that, though; a casual user might not know the difference between a trusted source and a slapdash amateur. Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024 How about to public peace? Aid groups say the Taliban are not equipped for the wave of returnees, who have been pouring out of Pakistan and into slapdash relocation camps near the Torkham and Chaman border crossings. Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2023 Their brand was chaos: live shows that were transcendent or tragicomic depending on the drugs involved; albums that interpolated brilliant Stones-adjacent youth anthems and devastating country weepers with slapdash Kiss covers and improvised jams where no one played their actual instrument. Elizabeth Nelson, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for slapdash
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slapdash
Adjective
  • Mother Nature is unpredictable, fickle, random at best.
    Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • Even the title feels random: Keiji once bought Fuki a print of Auguste Renoir’s portrait of a child called Irene.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • But Laxe’s cadence of death is nasty and arbitrary and delightful.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
  • These bills would formalize what the Parole Board should already be doing and therefore limit arbitrary rejections.
    Julia Salazar, New York Daily News, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • In lieu of federal regulation, there was a haphazard patchwork of state and local laws surrounding certain foods pre-1906.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 1 May 2025
  • Others may be haphazard power grabs, or may amount to something more.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The president’s erratic policies are raising concerns the economy might be headed for a downturn, but history suggests that franchise values will continue to climb regardless.
    Justin Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
  • Working with the brilliant but erratic Bart Eckland, Susan was a young biologist stationed far in the Panamanian rainforest years ago at Los Panos.
    Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 9 May 2025

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“Slapdash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slapdash. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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