"his klatch of friends hasn't changed all that much since college",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And a klatch of daddy bloggers was trying to cajole the nation\u2019s leading online retailer into making its parent-discount program more inclusive for men. \u2014 Daniel Engber, The Atlantic , 7 June 2022",
"Gridiron great Ronnie Lott and his wife, Karen Lott, scored a touchdown by joining forces with the Vault to host the 555 California Street Tree Lighting Celebration and culinary klatch benefiting All Stars Helping Kids. \u2014 Catherine Bigelow, SFChronicle.com , 10 Dec. 2019",
"There are the Democrats \u2014 a klatch of women in white, black legislators in African stoles, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with her colorful headwrap swirling high. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 5 Feb. 2020",
"In the klatch of voters watching from their lawn chairs, a woman in a blue windbreaker, maybe in her late twenties, sat ramrod straight, the phone tightly gripped in her hand forgotten for the moment. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Everyone has a favorite; just ask the guys down at the weekend coffee klatch about the Vector, the Ferrari Enzo, or the Porsche Carrera GT. \u2014 Hannah Elliottbloomberg, Los Angeles Times , 9 Sep. 2019",
"In another, Cannes jury president Melita Toscan du Plantier hobnobbed with Isabelle Hupert and a klatch of distinguished international actresses, and Nicolas bonded with Connelly, Emma Stone, and Sienna Miller. \u2014 Hamish Bowles, Vogue , 30 May 2018",
"The boss, who resembles a softer Steve Ballmer, saunters past a klatch of employees chowing down on Aussie-style meat pies. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 26 Feb. 2018",
"Come gametime Sunday, every football klatch buzzed with talk of Trump, tweets, disrespect. \u2014 S.l. Price, SI.com , 27 Sep. 2017"
"his klatch of friends hasn't changed all that much since college",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And a klatch of daddy bloggers was trying to cajole the nation\u2019s leading online retailer into making its parent-discount program more inclusive for men. \u2014 Daniel Engber, The Atlantic , 7 June 2022",
"Gridiron great Ronnie Lott and his wife, Karen Lott, scored a touchdown by joining forces with the Vault to host the 555 California Street Tree Lighting Celebration and culinary klatch benefiting All Stars Helping Kids. \u2014 Catherine Bigelow, SFChronicle.com , 10 Dec. 2019",
"There are the Democrats \u2014 a klatch of women in white, black legislators in African stoles, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with her colorful headwrap swirling high. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 5 Feb. 2020",
"In the klatch of voters watching from their lawn chairs, a woman in a blue windbreaker, maybe in her late twenties, sat ramrod straight, the phone tightly gripped in her hand forgotten for the moment. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Everyone has a favorite; just ask the guys down at the weekend coffee klatch about the Vector, the Ferrari Enzo, or the Porsche Carrera GT. \u2014 Hannah Elliottbloomberg, Los Angeles Times , 9 Sep. 2019",
"In another, Cannes jury president Melita Toscan du Plantier hobnobbed with Isabelle Hupert and a klatch of distinguished international actresses, and Nicolas bonded with Connelly, Emma Stone, and Sienna Miller. \u2014 Hamish Bowles, Vogue , 30 May 2018",
"The boss, who resembles a softer Steve Ballmer, saunters past a klatch of employees chowing down on Aussie-style meat pies. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 26 Feb. 2018",
"Come gametime Sunday, every football klatch buzzed with talk of Trump, tweets, disrespect. \u2014 S.l. Price, SI.com , 27 Sep. 2017"
"The 22,000-square-foot hall could hold some 2,000 people, and it was designed to be a space where the klavern -- a local unit of the Klan -- could practice marches and perform minstrel shows. \u2014 Brandon Tensley, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"According to testimony in the 2005 murder trial, Killen served as a kleagle, or organizer, of the Klan in Neshoba County and helped set up a klavern , or local Klan group, in a nearby county. \u2014 CBS News , 12 Jan. 2018",
"Other homeowners might be more inclined, as is Rake\u2019s good-for-nothing brother-in-law, to pull on their white hoods and attend a meeting of the local Klan klavern in the basement of the Congregational church. \u2014 Marilyn Stasio, New York Times , 13 Sep. 2017"
": a haphazard or makeshift solution to a problem and especially to a computer or programming problem":[
"Just getting your documents into and out of the iPad is a kludge . You must e-mail them back and forth to yourself or sync to your computer using iTunes software.",
"\u2014 Steve Morgenstern"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The hybrid schedule exists solely as a kludge and back-formation from the standard six-foot guideline for social distancing. \u2014 David Zweig, Wired , 6 Aug. 2020",
"And while there surely is a lot of regulatory kludge (or maybe sludge?) that has developed through the years that could be removed without harm, there\u2019s not much evidence of a systematic effort to do that. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Feb. 2019",
"Its eight episodes comprise a centerless, ham-handed kludge of a season, one that keeps beating you over the head with music and ACTING and plot twists to try to convince you everything that\u2019s happening is Important. \u2014 Todd Vanderwerff, Vox , 2 Nov. 2018",
"And there are various other fourth-best kludges , ways of wedging a de facto price on carbon into markets. \u2014 David Roberts, Vox , 27 Apr. 2018",
"Everyone who supports decarbonization would prefer a large and rising carbon price to all these kludges . \u2014 David Roberts, Vox , 20 Apr. 2018",
"In Apple\u2019s view, the interference was in consumers\u2019 best interest: a kludge to halt shutdowns caused by outdated lithium-ion electrodes. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 23 Jan. 2018",
"Meant to evoke something sporty, like a jet ski, instead of a lumbering Cessna or a tough-to-fly experimental kludge , the plane is supposed to let anyone who can afford the $139,000 price tag become a barnstormer. \u2014 Carl Hoffman, WIRED , 7 Oct. 2015"
"how can she be such a klutz after studying ballet for so many years?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Serious klutzes might consider an OtterBox Defender Series (from $50; otterbox.com) for ultra-rugged protection. \u2014 Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY , 14 Dec. 2019",
"But none of these addresses the underlying problem; namely, that cell-phone owners are human beings, and are therefore klutzes . \u2014 Jody Rosen, The New Yorker , 5 Nov. 2019",
"While your industrial klutz watches safely from afar. \u2014 Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al , 9 Oct. 2019",
"Ben Michael is endearing as Henri Baurel, the rich young man who despite being something of a klutz , dreams of being a nightclub performer. \u2014 Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com , 31 Jan. 2018",
"Kathryn Hahn, playing Chris Kraus, makes a winning klutz . \u2014 Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker , 20 May 2017",
"Graceful strolling guaranteed, even for the chronic klutzes . \u2014 Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED , 24 Oct. 2011"
"how can she be such a klutz after studying ballet for so many years?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Serious klutzes might consider an OtterBox Defender Series (from $50; otterbox.com) for ultra-rugged protection. \u2014 Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY , 14 Dec. 2019",
"But none of these addresses the underlying problem; namely, that cell-phone owners are human beings, and are therefore klutzes . \u2014 Jody Rosen, The New Yorker , 5 Nov. 2019",
"While your industrial klutz watches safely from afar. \u2014 Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al , 9 Oct. 2019",
"Ben Michael is endearing as Henri Baurel, the rich young man who despite being something of a klutz , dreams of being a nightclub performer. \u2014 Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com , 31 Jan. 2018",
"Kathryn Hahn, playing Chris Kraus, makes a winning klutz . \u2014 Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker , 20 May 2017",
"Graceful strolling guaranteed, even for the chronic klutzes . \u2014 Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED , 24 Oct. 2011"
"how can she be such a klutz after studying ballet for so many years?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Serious klutzes might consider an OtterBox Defender Series (from $50; otterbox.com) for ultra-rugged protection. \u2014 Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY , 14 Dec. 2019",
"But none of these addresses the underlying problem; namely, that cell-phone owners are human beings, and are therefore klutzes . \u2014 Jody Rosen, The New Yorker , 5 Nov. 2019",
"While your industrial klutz watches safely from afar. \u2014 Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al , 9 Oct. 2019",
"Ben Michael is endearing as Henri Baurel, the rich young man who despite being something of a klutz , dreams of being a nightclub performer. \u2014 Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com , 31 Jan. 2018",
"Kathryn Hahn, playing Chris Kraus, makes a winning klutz . \u2014 Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker , 20 May 2017",
"Graceful strolling guaranteed, even for the chronic klutzes . \u2014 Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED , 24 Oct. 2011"
