pieced

past tense of piece

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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
  • Homes can be visually inspected for compliance from the outside, and enclosing the ground level area for living space after the home is constructed and approved for occupancy would draw a reverse work order.
    Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • This is what Prada, in collaboration with 2x4, an environments and branding firm, has constructed around its flagship Fifth Avenue building this spring.
    Lauren Sinclair, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The New York complaint is built to wound, and its details travel beyond the penalty math.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The ship is built for open-ocean missions but can also handle expeditionary operations, coastal tasks, and joint missions with other navies.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory assembled the core detector modules and tested the preliminary hardware.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Outside the Moda Center, dozens of Cunningham supporters gathered for the second consecutive Fever road game, while counterprotesters assembled nearby, some wearing costumes.
    Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Navy officials said assembly would fall to Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, where aircraft carriers and some submarines are made.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Donations can be made online by visiting the foundation's website.
    Tori Mason, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Pieced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pieced. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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