piecing (together)

verb

present participle of piece (together)
1
as in building

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2
as in figuring out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piecing (together)
  1. building
  2. figuring out
  3. constructing
  4. working out
  5. assembling
  6. solving
  7. compounding
  8. writing
Verb
  • Patel, whose company is building infrastructure supporting the AI boom, expects AI agents to go mainstream, allowing demand to continue its explosive growth.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But since Oliver Glasner’s appointment, the Austrian has been working with McAtee — who had already spent the summer working on building his physique — on operating in a deeper role.
    — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of building
Verb
  • Her challenge now isn’t simply figuring out how to keep growing it, but how to keep it relevant as the American consumer who fueled the industry’s growth changes.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The insurance industry has spent decades figuring out how to avoid paying for your health.
    — Andréa Becker, STAT, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of figuring out
Verb
  • Better access began not with constructing another clinic or hiring an entirely new workforce, but with examining how existing capacity was used.
    — Eugene Litvak, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Isolating each peak required constructing a very specific function that, when multiplied by the original fractal-like function, would pull out just the peak and be close to zero everywhere else.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of constructing
Verb
  • Bieber's carousel also included a video of herself working out at a gym and a photo in which she was seen holding a plate of meatballs topped with red sauce and cheese.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Donald has been working out at the Rams' Woodland Hills training complex and at home for several weeks in his attempt to return to NFL shape.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of working out
Verb
  • The project will add domestic capacity for assembling, integrating, and testing Wärtsilä engines used for ship propulsion and auxiliary power.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Nvidia is assembling a $500 billion pot from a who’s who of Wall Street firms which will, in turn, backstop OpenAI’s lease of a SoftBank data center in Ohio and help startups rent access to Nvidia’s chips from CoreWeave.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • But the bigger question, Tamfuh said, is whether the government is solving the country’s longstanding problems.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Defensiveness extends conversations, weakens credibility and drains emotional energy that could have been directed toward solving problems.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of solving
Verb
  • When such a system is in place, AI stops being a buzzword and starts being an engine for compounding trust.
    — AJ Bubb, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Daily life has turned into a tangle of compounding crises families have to unravel.
    — Andrea Rodriguez, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of compounding
Verb
  • But Democrats, like Senator Richard Blumenthal, writing to Secretary Hegseth and Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, demanding answers about the conditions.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Just three years ago, Katie Husher was writing software to control autonomous vehicles at Cruise in San Francisco.
    — Laura Ness, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of writing
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