cobbled; cobbling
ˈkä-b(ə-)liŋ 
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chiefly British
: to mend or patch coarsely
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: to make or put together roughly or hastily
—often used with together or up
cobble together an agreement
cobble up a temporary solution
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Examples of cobble in a Sentence
Verb
expensive leather shoes cobbled in Italy
Noun
a street paved with cobbles
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Quanta Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
Since he was fired from Fox News, Carlson has cobbled together a successful, dexterous career tweeting, podcasting, and speechifying.
—Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2024
Maybe Vance can slip over into southwestern Pennsylvania and cobble together some more votes from the Laurel Highlands.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
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Verb
With enough know-how, the researchers can then cobble together a fully synthetic genome that abides by nature’s design rules to produce a working eukaryotic cell.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
Since he was fired from Fox News, Carlson has cobbled together a successful, dexterous career tweeting, podcasting, and speechifying.
—Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
The scammers — based mostly in India, Russia, China and Eastern Europe — cobble together the fake videos using a mix of free and cheap tools in less than 10 minutes.
—Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2024
Maybe Vance can slip over into southwestern Pennsylvania and cobble together some more votes from the Laurel Highlands.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
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“Cobble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cobble. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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