MELDING Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

melding

verb

present participle of meld

as in combining

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 melding These albums are unique exercises for WiFi and his understated, malleable rapping—balancing acts for retaining his own singular style while melding with his producers’ beats. —

Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 6 May 2026 Eileen is Hathaway perfectly in the pocket with her obsessions as a performer, melding her gifts for the exquisite and the dark while building a character who is never easy to pin down to a simple motive. —

Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026 Take a walk to Chew Jetty, a historic waterfront settlement of stilt houses built by Chinese immigrants in the 19th century; visit Little India, with its heady, culture-melding atmosphere; or make a day doing the rounds of clan temples (Khoo Kongsi included) and Peranakan mansions. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026 The Canadian filmmaker Sophy Romvari does something similar with the new movie Blue Heron, a semi-autobiographical piece whose structure loops in on itself, melding fact and fiction into a doleful portrait of a family tragedy. —

Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026 Pill is an advocate of melding modern technology and data with old-fashioned, one-on-one teaching. —

Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026 Lots of time-travel, mind-melding, skin-shedding, clones, and dream invasion episodes to blend in with the cross-species relationships and typical high school melodrama. —

Jeff Spry, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2026 Whereas traditional nuclear fission energy creates power by splitting atoms, fusion uses heat to create energy by melding them together. —

Jordan Blum, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026 Dart operated an offense last season formed by melding some of Kafka’s influences from Kansas City with head coach Brian Daboll’s scheme. —

Dan Duggan, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026

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The research highlights how combining quantum processors with classical computing resources may define the next phase of high-performance computing, offering a path toward solving problems that are currently out of reach.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 May 2026
Donovan Mitchell and James Harden struggled for Cleveland, combining to shoot only 44% from the field and turn the ball over 10 times.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 6 May 2026