pieces 1 of 2

plural of piece
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as in works
a literary, musical, or artistic production presented a new interpretation of the piece by Mozart

Synonyms & Similar Words

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pieces

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verb

present tense third-person singular of piece

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of pieces
Noun
The pieces were sourced through Blanckaert’s network of former clients and private collectors. — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026 The main museum, at 1250 Bannock Street, will continue to show and conserve Still’s roughly 3,125 pieces of art (or about 93% of his lifetime work, officials said). — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2026 Smaller pieces of the roof broke apart as sections detached from the main frame of the building. — Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026 Los Angeles has all the pieces to try and win their third straight World Series, but this is a game that features a much more confident Brewers team. — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 In my case, Mike has written into these pieces, characters that I haven’t been given the opportunity to play, or just happened upon the chance to play, people like Bev Keane in Midnight Mass. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2026 Let cool at least 5 minutes, then break into pieces to serve. — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Oct. 2026 There’s a mysterious liminal zone of musical works that are neither concert pieces nor operas. — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026 Dallas homicide detective Andrea Isom reopened the case 32-years later and submitted several pieces of evidence for forensic analysis, according to the release. — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
As Sullivan pieces those holdovers from the previous regime together with his first full free agency class in 2027 and a second draft class, the roster could really start to come together in another year. — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2026 Bieber poses in matching bras and underwear with little beyond the seamless background, straightforward lighting and the cotton pieces themselves in the frame. — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 22 June 2026 The musician noted that his tattoo artist, Roxx, had told him that pieces this large usually take around two years to complete. — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026 The director pieces the film together in elliptical fashion. — Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pieces
Noun
  • The star is 2,160,000 ppb of low-molecular-weight collagen—in other words, smaller collagen fragments that help draw moisture to skin for a plumper, firmer look.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 7 Oct. 2026
  • This test, as well as others like it, can detect tiny fragments of free-floating DNA in the blood.
    — H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Keynesianism gets a brain freeze John Maynard Keynes is basically the father of macroeconomics, the study of how the entire economy works, including what the government can do to fight recessions, boost employment, and control inflation.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Several works confront the digital systems shaping contemporary life, subverting algorithms and finding room for human error and agency.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Assassin is a real-life game played around the world, with NERF guns or water pistols most commonly used as the assassination method.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The United States is currently managing to get significant amounts of crude oil (if not refined product) through the strait, but only by providing costly military protection to tankers that slip past Iran’s guns with their transponders off.
    — Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • This year, lingering warmth could disrupt or shorten the fall foliage window for large portions of the country.
    — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Tishman’s people have spent the past few years sprucing up Rockefeller Center — the oldest portions of which are comparable in age to the Chrysler Building, though they’ve been better maintained — and trying to make its retail spaces more of a draw.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Through artifacts spanning 5,000 years, the exhibition constructs an extraordinary history of fashion and the body—material, carnal, vulnerable, seductive, devotional, fragmented—and its transpositions into various expressive languages.
    — Judith Clark, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Hur judiciously constructs scene after scene that pulls and pushes the various probes closer to and further from the mysterious truth, which feels at once obscured and hidden in plain sight.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • And Widow’s Bay was, of course, very successful at alternating between scary and funny bits.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In addition, they’re used in experiments searching for dark matter and in systems that read information from superconducting quantum bits, or qubits.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The researchers therefore propose lithium-rich compositions as a way to address the bottleneck.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In her college days, Livia’s gift enlivens her nimble fingertips so that can take on the toughest of compositions.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Slota’s online footprint shows a history of endorsing violence against political enemies, training with firearms, and inviting other leftists to prepare for possible armed conflict before his arrest, a Washington Examiner review found.
    — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
  • On his cellphone, according to the complaint, investigators found messages about drug trafficking and firearms, including devices capable of converting Glock pistols into a fully automatic machine gun.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

Cite this Entry

“Pieces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pieces. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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