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Verb
Two of the film's divers/underwater photographers, Ron and Valerie Taylor, would later shoot the real second-unit shark footage that Spielberg spliced into his film.—Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 20 June 2025 Footage of the pair happily posing for pictures, echoing the LP’s cover art, are spliced in.—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2025
Noun
The trailer for the tour splices clips recorded on film of the singer’s one-night-only performance of the album live at El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles.—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2025 There are a number of small scenes throughout Bring Her Back that splice visceral horror tropes next to occasionally more unsettling glimpses of human vulnerability and error.—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for splice
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Verb
obsolete Dutch splissen; akin to Middle Dutch splitten to split
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