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- verb Present participle of
patchwork . - noun The making of
patchworks
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Examples
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He has some patchworking to do to clean himself up again ...
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“Gerrymandering” is a term made up by the cynical patchworking of a voting district intended to benefit a particular party.
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I hoard books and then there's my patchworking stash - a drawer full of 'fat quarters' - I can't afford to horde yarn too!
lesbians, catboys, ukes, yarn and harlots: The Knitting Post...at last! Elizabeth McClung 2009
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I think patchworking will be a welcome tangible project.
Archive 2007-08-01 Ele 2007
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I think patchworking will be a welcome tangible project.
Patchwork preparation in Banff Ele 2007
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In fact, Erdrich's first 'novel' seems deliberate, faux naif perhaps, in its asymmetrical patchworking, almost as if a structure would be out of place in such a stark amalgam of poetry and sociology.
Foundling Fiction Rubins, Josh 1987
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• Michael van der Ham, continued his signature of patchworking various couture fabrics into sweet, loose, day-dresses with an upmarket, boho-feel.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Fortunately, the production is sufficiently agile to pull it off successfully, because the skaters are technically brilliant, performing ever more breathtaking manoeuvres with a speed and agility that is astounding, but this somewhat gratuitous patchworking of shows could leave one feeling a bit cold.
unknown title 2009
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In winter 2008, DHS tested the standard in tying together a half dozen radio patchworking boxes.
FCW News 2009
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Communities use patchworking boxes to link the VOIP radio systems.
FCW News 2009
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