piecing (together)

Definition of piecing (together)next
present participle of piece (together)
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Verb
  • Based in Los Angeles, Parker spent the last eight years building and leading the IP business at Verve — now a full-service division of the agency — which during her tenure sold more than 250 projects across publishing, audio, film, television, and licensing.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The electrician wiring a data center is building the backbone of the AI boom, where a single error can cost millions in downtime.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The tricky part for the Huskies is figuring out who is coming back, and what needs will be left to address.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
  • In 2024, a CHA official said figuring out a funding formula involving historic tax credits had gummed up the next steps.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Stearns has generally placed a higher premium on defense up the middle when constructing rosters.
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • By utilizing an existing containment structure, the project was able to establish a testing environment without constructing an entirely new shell.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Gamble is still assembling a staff but one of her assistants will be her brother, Kenneth Davis, a former receiver at Liberty High in Bakersfield.
    Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • With every petal peeled and stem snipped, Phoebe Rupp, Maddie Cofer and Ava Sudbeck are assembling their masterpieces.
    Bo Evans, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Bailey has a wide-eyed clueless cuteness that lends to her character’s well-meaning naiveté — even her missteps have a way of working out.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The party and potential host cities are working out site visit plans for each in the coming weeks.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The 2020s have been a decade of compounding American institutional failure — a pandemic, political rupture, an affordability crisis, student loan servicers treated as adversaries, a healthcare system that bankrupts the sick, and a growing sense that the system is not working as advertised.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Risky peptides Specifically, the PCAC will consider moving the 12 peptides back onto a list of drugs that compounding pharmacies can make for human use.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Subscribe today Hello, this is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Buffett was writing at a time when the Dot Com bubble was deflating.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Residents deserve leadership that is focused on solving problems, not creating them.
    Denise Horland, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Most of the preparation for this eventuality has involved updating RSA encryption to use the Module Lattice Key Encapsulation Mechanism—typically known as ML-KEM—a PQC algorithm based on problems that quantum computers have no advantage over classical computing in solving.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
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“Piecing (together).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piecing%20%28together%29. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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