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Recent Examples of splice
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.
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Jenny Berg, Allure, 20 Apr. 2025
With unseen home movies and restored footage from the eponymous One to One benefit concert, spliced together with era-specific material, the distributor is calling this an audacious, experiential and unprecedented look into the lives of the iconic couple.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2025
Armando Iannucci’s Veep, which ran through most of Trump’s first term, became frequent shorthand for his regime’s dysfunction, its end credits and closing theme spliced into news footage of the facepalm of the week.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025
While sets could be made from ivory, the majority were made from inexpensive cow bone spliced with bamboo.
—Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
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Jenny Berg, Allure, 20 Apr. 2025
With unseen home movies and restored footage from the eponymous One to One benefit concert, spliced together with era-specific material, the distributor is calling this an audacious, experiential and unprecedented look into the lives of the iconic couple.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2025
Armando Iannucci’s Veep, which ran through most of Trump’s first term, became frequent shorthand for his regime’s dysfunction, its end credits and closing theme spliced into news footage of the facepalm of the week.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025
While sets could be made from ivory, the majority were made from inexpensive cow bone spliced with bamboo.
—Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splice
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At point there, while two of the men were handcuffed and chained at the feet, one of them slammed his body into another, leading to a shouting match and law enforcement separating the two.—
Matt Finn,
FOXNews.com,
21 May 2025
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They were shackled and chained, and footage of them was shared on X on April 4 by Michael W. Banks, chief of U.S. Border Patrol.—
Diaa Hadid,
NPR,
19 May 2025
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Now, Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks was presenting a vision where Buxton could be IndyCar’s lead voice and create a bridge to the horde of new F1 fans in the United States — many of whom were hooked by the same Netflix show that made Buxton so well known here.—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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Still, that indicates a good amount of interest, and I’m certainly hooked after the first episode.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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His rivalry with Machar is compounded by ethnic divisions.—
Cara Anna,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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No further details have been revealed; watch the trailer to compound the mystery below, and scroll down for the band’s dates.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
21 May 2025
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Instead, women’s football has been hitched to the Festival Girl Power Summer brandwagon.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
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Load it with lumber, hitch a trailer, or even drive into a strong headwind, and that figure can drop faster than your enthusiasm on a Monday morning.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 May 2025
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My daughter's charcoal box was assembled by mixed media artist Nikoli Shaver and included a graphite starter kit, a small pack of media-appropriate paper, an eraser, charcoal pencils, and more.—
Adrienne So,
Wired News,
17 May 2025
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After the wild third act in Final Destination Bloodlines, the credits begin to roll with a view of the newspaper clippings that Stefanie assembled.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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At the start of the Syrian civil war, al-Shara led the Nusra Front, which was a direct affiliate of al-Qaida and was initially allied with former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Qatar has supported the Houthis for years and allied itself with Iran.—
The Editors,
National Review,
13 May 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,
7 Mar. 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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Kath Walker, a DOC senior science advisor, said in the release that the snails lay eggs through their neck because to their hard shell gets in the way of mating anywhere else on their body.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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Eradicating the disease is possible through a technique in which male screwworm flies are sterilized and then released into the environment to mate with females until the population dies out.—
Youri Benadjaoud,
ABC News,
12 May 2025
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“Splice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splice. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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