pieced (together)

Definition of pieced (together)next
past tense of piece (together)
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Verb
  • Cove Gardens, where my family lived, was a sprawling red brick rental complex built after the war for the light-industrial, service, and clerical workers who were saving up for their own houses in a better area.
    Chang-rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
  • Each bag is slightly different, all of them built to last, and the result is a bag equally at home on a boat, a beach, or a farmers’ market.
    Amanda Eyre Ward, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2026
Verb
  • That massive shortage is the result of years of underfunding compounded by the pandemic, which shuttered roughly 16,000 providers.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 3 May 2026
  • Issues were around its batteries The delay was compounded by the fact that the battery needed to be removed from Bepop and the aircraft.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • In a boost for advocates fighting to save a portion of the Hoppers Birge Pond Nature Preserve in Bristol from being developed, the city has worked out an agreement with the developer to acquire six acres for preservation.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2026
  • Timing still needs to be worked out.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • Then with five seconds to go before intermission, Watts found the back of the net as Notre Dame constructed an 8-7 lead at the break.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
  • The venue was a casually magnificent stone building, constructed in the fifteenth century as a Dominican convent, on a promontory overlooking a sparkling bay.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • In the lab, participants figured out forty-two per cent of the puzzles that showed up in their dreams.
    Shayla Love, New Yorker, 1 May 2026
  • But few of them figured out Congress as quickly as Massie, who had grown up in rural Kentucky but earned two degrees in engineering from MIT.
    Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The United States entered the war with the M3 Lee-Grant, which was hastily assembled when the war broke out and shipped abroad as part of the Lend-Lease program.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
  • Instead, Feldman has assembled a demanding lineup that will require the Playhouse to operate on a larger scale than ever before.
    Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • Recently, the field has experienced a sort of renaissance as researchers — many of them astrophysics refugees like Dwyer — have devised new ways to pierce the clouds.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • Meade, who at the time was eight years into a minimum 10-year prison sentence, devised a plan with co-conspirator Nicholas Umphenour to coordinate his escape from custody.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 5 May 2026
Verb
  • Freddy the Detective solved his first mystery in 1927, a passing-of-the-deerstalker year in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his last Sherlock Holmes story and Agatha Christie introduced Miss Jane Marple.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • Problem solved fairly for everyone.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
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“Pieced (together).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pieced%20%28together%29. Accessed 10 May. 2026.

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