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
  • So, after figuring out that an evil scientist was using Loki’s scepter to build an artificial-intelligence system, Stark and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) pop it into the Avengers Tower’s mainframe.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The podcast will see the married couple exploring the realities of navigating major life changes, from relationships under pressure, shifting identities, family dynamics and figuring out the future when life looks different from the past.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • To overcome these limitations, researchers propose constructing a continuous field of local reference frames guided by surface geometry and keypoints.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Soft robotics, a subfield of robotics that says robots can be squishy, focuses on constructing robots from highly flexible, deformable materials and systems.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 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
  • This usually only occurs in small amounts and can be replenished after working out.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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
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 26 Apr. 2026.

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