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Verb
The show opened with capri-style cargos, shredded denim, nylon bombers, and denim spliced and tied every which way.—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025 Oscar Isaac‘s Victor Frankenstein is part 18th-century dandy and part swaggering Swinging Sixties rock star, as if Lord Byron had been genetically spliced with Brian Jones.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
Yet each splice had only been fitted with four bolts.—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025 What began as a glorified chatbot has since outgrown this role, evolving into a strange splice of assistant and sycophantic companion.—Christian Perry, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for splice
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Etymology
Verb
obsolete Dutch splissen; akin to Middle Dutch splitten to split
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