PIECING Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

piecing

verb

present participle of piece

as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth

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Recent Examples of piecing Without a clear presentation to Congress or a formal address to the nation, the administration's communication has been scattershot and intermittent, leaving Americans with the task of piecing it all together. —

Justin Fishel, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026 According to his mother, Anthony at one point had been piecing things together and was volunteering in the community. —

Tim Fang, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026 As the pair confer with forensics and begin piecing things together, the detectives learn that the unit was once home to Oliver and his live-in girlfriend, Ciara. —

Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026 Researchers are currently piecing the story together, one experiment at a time, rather than proving out every step sequentially in the same set of organisms. —

Ivan Amato, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2025 The two men, by that time, began piecing a plan together and met with their wives about it. —

Staff, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025 Now, Kolchenko and his team are piecing it back together. —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025 Bruck made her costume herself, sewing each vine on by hand and carefully piecing it together in the weeks leading up to the party, as her friends told WXYZ-TV Detroit. —

Kelsey Lentz, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025 The student veterans handled much of the physical labor involved in piecing the wall together and securing it to the ground. —

Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 20 Oct. 2025

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Tuesday in a Castle Rock barn, history buffs are building replicas of old buildings, by hand.

— Olivia Young, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
After building a career in business and working across commercial partnerships in sport, Mitchell began to see the gap from both sides for young people with no pathway, and industries crying out for resilient, coachable talent.

— Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026