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Recent Examples of splice
With footage spliced from the recording studio and from the staging itself, the video captures every angle of McDonald's powerhouse performance as Mama Rose, the tenacious stage mother who will do anything to see her daughter become a showbiz star.
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Dave Quinn, People.com, 6 May 2025
The scientists then rewrote the 14 key genes in the cell’s nucleus to match those of the dire wolf; no ancient dire wolf DNA was actually spliced into the gray wolf’s genome.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Describing this in the video, recorded from inside his bedroom at 17, Evan maintains magnetic eye contact, but his delivery is energized, the final cut spliced with jokey memes.
—Maggie Shannon, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
With peppy opening notes spliced with mandarin orange, Coco Mademoiselle has a heart of jasmine and rose and a creamy, woody base of tonka bean, vanilla, patchouli, vetiver, and white musk.
—Jenny Berg, Allure, 20 Apr. 2025
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Dave Quinn, People.com, 6 May 2025
The scientists then rewrote the 14 key genes in the cell’s nucleus to match those of the dire wolf; no ancient dire wolf DNA was actually spliced into the gray wolf’s genome.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Describing this in the video, recorded from inside his bedroom at 17, Evan maintains magnetic eye contact, but his delivery is energized, the final cut spliced with jokey memes.
—Maggie Shannon, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
With peppy opening notes spliced with mandarin orange, Coco Mademoiselle has a heart of jasmine and rose and a creamy, woody base of tonka bean, vanilla, patchouli, vetiver, and white musk.
—Jenny Berg, Allure, 20 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splice
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In a Facebook post shared on Tuesday, Brother Wolf Animal Rescue shared the story of Alicia, a 1-year-old pup who was found chained outside and severely underweight by a local shelter, and then surrendered to them after testing positive for heartworm.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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Sherri alleged that the women held her hostage and chained her in a bedroom for weeks until one of the women released her.—
Jessica Sager,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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Fishing derby hopes to hook young anglers Anglers 15 and younger are invited to join the Just for Kids Fishing Derby offered by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County from 8 to 11 a.m. June 8 at Silver Lake in the Blackwell Forest Preserve in Warrenville.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
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Beaver Creek, Colorado Beyond fast access to the high-quality trout waters of the Vail Valley, plus the legendary resort infrastructure of lodging, guides, and restaurants, Orvis offers an affordable one-day fly-fishing school on Beaver Creek to get the whole family hooked.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
29 May 2025
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Year-to-year inflation may look low, but prices continue to compound upwards.—
John S. Tobey,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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But the gender gap in education starts even earlier: Boys enter kindergarten less prepared than girls, and this early deficit can compound and help explain some of the recent struggles of boys and young men.—
Claire Cain Miller,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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The impressive team effort enables nematodes to hitch rides on passing insects to more favorable habitats and bridge otherwise untraversable gaps, Ding and her co-authors suggest.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
5 June 2025
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At the time, Cruise’s love story with Katie Holmes felt inextricably linked to the third Mission: Impossible film, which saw Ethan Hunt getting hitched to Julia, played by Michelle Monaghan.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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Agentic workflows — While the first two innovations provide a better AI experience, the ability for agents to share data and be assembled into workflows is the big game-changer.—
Jason Andersen,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Large groups of protesters quickly assembled near raid sites on both days, leading to traffic disruptions and escalating tensions with federal authorities.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 June 2025
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Polish and allied planes briefly scrambled early on Monday in Polish airspace, as Russia unleashed its aerial strikes, the Polish armed forces said.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
9 June 2025
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The gunmen appeared to be allied with Israel's military, operating in close proximity to troops and retreating into an Israeli military zone in the southern city of Rafah after the crowd hurled stones at them, witnesses said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 June 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,
10 June 2025
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Authorities are accusing Antonio Hernandez and confederates Ivan Murillo-Hernandez and Alexis Garcia Martinez of ripping off mail from unsuspecting venues with the help of four juveniles, whose names were not released.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2024
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Spraying the male mosquitoes with Metarhizium fungal spores could ensure that the fungus spread to the female mosquitoes that the males mated with.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
4 June 2025
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These birds regularly mate and produce young together.—
Elay Shech,
The Conversation,
30 May 2025
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“Splice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splice. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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