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Recent Examples of splice
The program spliced excerpts from different points in Trump’s speech in a way that created the impression of a single continuous passage, mistakenly suggesting a direct call for violent action, before cutting to footage of the Proud Boys.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Dec. 2025
Amid starting a family, writing blockbuster pop albums, and making his acting debut in One Battle After Another, Dijon Duenas spliced together his second album, Baby, and became one of the most compelling voices in modern music.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 8 Dec. 2025
Their daughter and the film’s co-director Geeta Patel also spliced in footage of a family trip to India where Ravi agreed to be putting in a serious effort to find a partner by his parents’ standards.
—Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 3 Dec. 2025
Ratings will jump, clips will recirculate to reach viral status and podcasts will have to splice in extra segments if his words hit their target as intended.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 27 Nov. 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Dec. 2025
Amid starting a family, writing blockbuster pop albums, and making his acting debut in One Battle After Another, Dijon Duenas spliced together his second album, Baby, and became one of the most compelling voices in modern music.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 8 Dec. 2025
Their daughter and the film’s co-director Geeta Patel also spliced in footage of a family trip to India where Ravi agreed to be putting in a serious effort to find a partner by his parents’ standards.
—Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 3 Dec. 2025
Ratings will jump, clips will recirculate to reach viral status and podcasts will have to splice in extra segments if his words hit their target as intended.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 27 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splice
Verb
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Twenty-one sailors were chained, stripped and sold into slavery.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
9 Jan. 2026
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One of Elizabeth Vartkessian’s clients had been left chained to a bed as a baby with a bottle and some bowls nearby.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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And, to no one's disappointment, seasons 2 and 3 followed suit, hooking fans even more.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
31 Jan. 2026
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In a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Matt Damon, the star of many movies that college students may not have seen, said that Netflix has started encouraging filmmakers to put action sequences in the first five minutes of a film to get viewers hooked.—
Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
30 Jan. 2026
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The risk is that these behaviors compound burnout in an already strained system.—
Dilan Gomih,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones is assembling a multi-acre waterfront compound along the Intracoastal, a practice once largely confined to Palm Beach Island.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
29 Jan. 2026
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By November, they were hitched.—
Sarah Hepola,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Jan. 2026
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With Colin and Penelope now happily hitched and raising their son, the new season focuses on Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) and his love story with Sophie (Yerin Ha), which unfolds at his mother's soiree of the year.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
31 Dec. 2025
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At the same time, actually building the mechanism and assembling all the gears and pulleys is a little crash course in engineering and construction that's sure to get their own brain's cogs turning.—
Ian Stokes,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Even so, when taken together with earlier studies, the results make a strong case that space itself can assemble key pieces of life’s chemistry long before Earth‑like environments come into play.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Braverman shot down the idea of allying with her former party in an interview with the Telegraph.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Jan. 2026
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The group is known to work with Los Viagras, a criminal organization allied with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Jan. 2026
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Reality-show judges could include Taylor and Travis confederates: Tree Paine, Sabrina Carpenter, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, and Patrick Mahomes.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
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Rowling and longtime confederates Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts are exec producing, so she is expected to be involved in the decision-making on the series.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
19 Aug. 2025
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The power plant is mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
26 Jan. 2026
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Frequent mate switching combined with low reproductive ‘skew’ and possibly the active avoidance of mating with close relatives, may be effective strategies to maintaining the genetic health of relatively small populations.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 Jan. 2026
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“Splice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splice. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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