as in combined
to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout
a cuisine that melds East and West into strikingly original flavor combinations
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Recent Examples of melded
Snow is being melded at the cities snow farms in order to create more capacity.
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Matt Schooley, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
His creations melded innovation, artistic sensibility and a strong connection with the environment.
—Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 16 Feb. 2026
Set your slow cooker to the low heat setting and let the chili simmer for about 4-6 hours or until the meat is cooked and the flavors have melded together.
—Maryal Miller Carter, USA Today, 14 Feb. 2026
But the print edition is a shadow of its former self, with metro, style, and sports melded into an anemic second section; daily print circulation is now below one hundred thousand.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
Bodhiria was a complex, labyrinthine concept album about toxic love that melded flamenco, joropo, and trap beats, all of it centered on Judeline’s voice.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
His family said Moon often melded his faith with his love and his connections in the music world, from producing church musical events to introduce fellow worshipers to new forms of Christian music to directing his church’s youth ministry alongside his wife when his children were younger.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
Cover and chill mixture until cold and flavors have melded, at least 1 hour or up to 3 days.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2025
Here, Myers and Freyne and the art team melded bits of a museum diorama with that same brutalist shape language to the building, and a whimsical, deeply artificial approach to dramatizing memory.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Nov. 2025
Matt Schooley, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
His creations melded innovation, artistic sensibility and a strong connection with the environment.
—Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 16 Feb. 2026
Set your slow cooker to the low heat setting and let the chili simmer for about 4-6 hours or until the meat is cooked and the flavors have melded together.
—Maryal Miller Carter, USA Today, 14 Feb. 2026
But the print edition is a shadow of its former self, with metro, style, and sports melded into an anemic second section; daily print circulation is now below one hundred thousand.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
Bodhiria was a complex, labyrinthine concept album about toxic love that melded flamenco, joropo, and trap beats, all of it centered on Judeline’s voice.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
His family said Moon often melded his faith with his love and his connections in the music world, from producing church musical events to introduce fellow worshipers to new forms of Christian music to directing his church’s youth ministry alongside his wife when his children were younger.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
Cover and chill mixture until cold and flavors have melded, at least 1 hour or up to 3 days.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2025
Here, Myers and Freyne and the art team melded bits of a museum diorama with that same brutalist shape language to the building, and a whimsical, deeply artificial approach to dramatizing memory.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for melded
Verb
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The two 6-foot-7 centers combined for five blocks in the first.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Mar. 2026
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Folks in the South will recognize ingredients like oxtails and butter beans, which are combined with Jamaican green seasoning, Scotch bonnet, and allspice in Fowles's recipe.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Reverse-creaming is the secret to tender cakes Reverse creaming is a technique in which dry ingredients are mixed with butter prior to adding any wet ingredients.—
Jesse Szewczyk,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 Mar. 2026
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The Weitzmans wore the pink Messi jerseys, while Gonzalez and his friends mixed the Argentina and blue-and-red jerseys of FC Barcelona, Messi’s European club.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Mar. 2026
Verb
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That would be Koons’s Split-Rocker, a massive kid’s rocking horse cut down the middle and merged with a dinosaur’s head then covered in flowers.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
6 Mar. 2026
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In 2024, his company, Skydance Media, merged with Paramount Global.—
Rodney Ho,
AJC.com,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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That curvature data is encoded as an explicit geometric prior and integrated into the model’s attention mechanism.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Mar. 2026
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But Bridge’s expanding tie-up with Visa underscores how the disruption narrative may be overstated, and how fintechs are becoming more integrated with legacy payment companies.—
Ben Weiss,
Fortune,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Inspired by the genre-crossing tastes of Gen Z audiences, corridos tumbados blended rap, trap and even a touch of emo, with Junior’s music delivering the lattermost, in particular, in abundance.—
Isabela Raygoza,
Billboard,
5 Mar. 2026
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To recreate this look, ask your colorist for a warm copper base blended with subtle brown lowlights.—
Amanda Le,
InStyle,
5 Mar. 2026
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The 25-year-old has amalgamated his global upbringing, modern life experiences, and keen musical talents to create a unique sound.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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And then this becomes something that is a city asset that could be used for central booking, or to be incorporated into the facility.—
Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
5 Mar. 2026
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And while the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 initially led schools to ban the technology outright, according to the Associated Press, views have begun to shift toward schools implementing policies regulating the use of such tools and determining how AI can be incorporated into the classroom.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Melded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melded. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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