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The Washington Post reported that a pediatrician found suicide instructions spliced into videos available on YouTube Kids. — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, "Parents, The Momo Challenge Isn't the Video You Need to Be Worrying About on YouTube," 28 Feb. 2019 Missing from the set’s liner notes is whether songs on the original album were complete takes or composites spliced together from the set’s outtakes. — Marc Myers, WSJ, "‘Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills’ Review: A Classic Album’s Untold Story," 20 Nov. 2018 Photo: Getty Images Ford Models In Milan, Versace collaborated with Ford Motors , splicing the American company’s iconic blue logo onto sweatshirts and jeans. — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, "A Guide to the Most Wearable—and Unwearable—Men’s Trends for 2019," 24 Jan. 2019 The Future: The American voting system is decentralized, spliced up into precincts, municipalities, districts, and counties that administer their own defenses against interference. — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, "If the 2018 Election Is Hacked, This Is How It Will Happen," 5 Nov. 2018 Whether spliced with lace, as at Prabal Gurung, or mashed up à la Preen by Thornton Begrazzi, plaids, tartans, and checks of all strokes are experiencing a renaissance. — Steff Yotka, Vogue, "The Top Trends of Pre-Fall 2019," 19 Dec. 2018 All the footage is spliced together with excited messages from fans on Twitter. — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, "Outlander Sneak Peek: Here's Your First Look at Brianna and Jamie's Emotional Introduction," 29 Dec. 2018 And the problems are a lot to do with the age of the film and the damage that’s been done in the last 100 years, in the sense of sort of scratches, of the way the film’s snapped and broken and been spliced together and frames have been lost. — Eric Johnson, Recode, "How Peter Jackson’s team made World War I footage look new," 15 Dec. 2018 The film's last sequence was one of the most emotional finales to hit Cannes in recent memory, splicing in real footage from the events in Charlottesville. — Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, "Cannes: Spike Lee's 'BlacKkKlansman' Draws 6-Minute Standing Ovation," 14 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'splice.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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