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
  • Foreign companies such as Vietnam’s VinFast and Japan’s Suzuki Motor are also building their presence in India across all types of EVs.
    — Anu Raghunathan, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
  • But the staff also recommends that the design be tweaked to comply with a federal law that limits building heights in downtown Washington to preserve the city's famous skyline.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
Definition of building
Verb
  • Then, just like now, the genre was figuring out what its modern identity was supposed to be in the wake of the latest hip-hop makeover.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 July 2026
  • For most of us, wedding-gift etiquette is figuring out whether the newlyweds already have a blender.
    — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
Definition of figuring out
Verb
  • The project included replacing sections of the penstock, installing new vent piping and constructing a new concrete thrust block.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2026
  • Success will depend less on constructing facilities than on securing long-term buyers, trusted regulators, technology transfer, and patient capital that can sustain long-term production.
    — Paul Adepoju, semafor.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of constructing
Verb
  • That pays for 110 personnel working out of six fire stations, a training division and the administrative office.
    — Noah Daly, Idaho Statesman, 8 July 2026
  • Holly Williams, a foreign correspondent working out of Istanbul for CBS News since 2012, and Mariana van Zeller, a journalist for National Geographic Channel, are both said to remain in contention.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of working out
Verb
  • Hackman spent the past decade assembling one of the world’s largest studio portfolios during a time production was booming.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
  • Russia’s Defense Ministry said the military carried out a strike on arms industry facilities in Kyiv overnight, hitting a plant that was manufacturing components for Flamingo cruise missiles and a facility assembling mid- and long-range drones.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • Powar explained that these systems are increasingly capable of working independently for extended periods, testing hypotheses, solving problems, and adapting their approach without constant human input.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
  • The problem Databento is solving has bothered anyone who has ever tried to get institutional-grade market data.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 9 July 2026
Definition of solving
Verb
  • Some early adopters are already compounding gains in efficiency, sales velocity, costs and visibility.
    — Bohdan Savchuk, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • The Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee meets July 23-24 to consider restoring certain peptides to the list of substances eligible for compounding by licensed 503A pharmacies, with a follow-up meeting to be held before February 2027.
    — Jerome Adams, STAT, 6 July 2026
Definition of compounding
Verb
  • Hart went into writing the ballad with that information, but the rest was up to him.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Hello, this is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Definition of writing
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