pieced

past tense of piece

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of pieced Search warrants filed in court in Watauga County detail how police pieced the case together. Julia Coin updated July 31, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2026 Among the most harrowing was an overhead photograph of Rivas’ body pieced back together on a metal table, her face skeletonized. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026 Over the course of the clip, which has been reversed, the room is slowly pieced back together until it is returned to its perfect state. Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026 Following the Japanese art form Kintsugi, the packaging is made up of gold- and silver-filled pottery fragments to resemble a broken heart pieced back together. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 July 2026 Milton was one or two plays away from some elite wins early on in the year, and have finally pieced them together as winners in seven of its last eight to crack the top 10. Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 20 May 2026 More recently, advisers have begun expanding their purview beyond acquisitions into estate planning, collection management, and institutional strategy, and Pirtle sees her pitch as one that links those strands should together, rather than having them be pieced out across different specialists. Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026 Years later, after fans repeatedly demanded the full version, Swift pieced it together into the now-iconic 10-minute track. Bryan West, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026 The Herald pieced some of the correspondence together in order to draw as complete a picture as possible of the various cases. Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pieced
Verb
  • Counterbalancing him is a young actor cast to play one of the show’s decoys (an excellent Skylar Gisondo), whose guilelessness only magnifies the film’s sense of Hansen as a man constructed entirely out of TV-friendly sheen.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Related Stories Romance, in terms of genre, is a first for the idiosyncratic director who has often constructed his films around his own persona, appearing as the central character.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Ergonomics was about chairs that were built for people, rather than chairs designed to fit efficiently into an office or be simple to stack and move.
    Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Many of its stations look as though they were built for the tsars, clad in precious marble and adorned with mosaics, crystal chandeliers, sculptures, and gilded moldings.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The latest contract builds on work that began in 2023, when GE Aerospace received initial funding for concept development and assembled the team that would work on the platform.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Heading into the 2026 season, Glenn seems more genuine, lighthearted and comfortable — a shift that may reflect his growing confidence in the roster the Jets assembled this offseason.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Original moldings, door knobs, and wood paneling have been preserved, but spaces have been shaped for contemporary use including made disabled-accessible.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took aim at New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft after Macklemore was forced off Ed Sheeran’s tour following onstage comments the rapper made in support of Palestinians amid Israel’s war in Gaza.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026

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“Pieced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pieced. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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