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• n  unevenness in quality or performance

• Restoring this lost patchiness is critical.
• It was this scale of patchiness in the landscape that once minimized the danger of horrific conflagrations like the infamous Hayman fire of 2002.
• Jef ferson's tough, ambitious self-teaching, in all its patchiness, cannot have been the smooth inheritance of masterpieces that his show suggests.