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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a patchwork system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a system that is made up of various different parts or components that may not fit together seamlessly.
Example: "The healthcare system in our country is often criticized for being a patchwork system, with different providers and policies that create inconsistencies in patient care."
Alternatives: "a fragmented system" or "a disjointed system".
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Crowley had a patchwork system of beliefs.
"We have a patchwork system of health care.
Food regulation is now a patchwork system that evolved over the last century.
To advocates like Ms. Fackler, such a patchwork system is an accident waiting to happen.
The change will bring a measure of cohesion to a patchwork system of programs largely chosen by school principals.
But the semi-deregulation has also spawned a patchwork system rife with information gaps and other market inefficiencies.
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Slavery was not an aberrant, patchwork system that consigned a few million luckless blacks to hard, unpaid labor.
"Often, the feedback we get is that it feels like a very patchwork system.
One clear improvement is in telephone service, but an annoying patchwork system does not allow mobile phones from one part of the country to communicate easily with those in other parts.
By a tally of 1,244 to 432, voters endorsed a plan that would close a hole in the patchwork system of libraries that has been developed over the years by individual communities.
Mr. Fleischer — whose blog notes that it reflects his personal views, not his employer's — is a proponent of the patchwork system because, he writes, it offers multilayered protection for Americans.
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