SPLICED Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

spliced

verb

past tense of splice

as in compounded

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Assume a 10% per year rate of return (compounded annually), roughly the gain for the S & P 500 over the past three decades, before accounting for inflation.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
The euthanasia drug, pentobarbital, must be pure and non-compounded.

— Dr. Jacob Appel, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of compounded

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The Democrats wrote in a summary of the allegations that immigrants sleep while restrained with handcuffs, leg irons and belly chains, and even elderly people have been chained for 16 hours a day.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Apple is keeping up by enabling M5 Pro Mac minis to be chained together via Thunderbolt 5 to share their computational resources for larger AI models.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

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Also Sunday, France's Socialist and allied voters chose European Parliament lawmaker Raphaël Glucksmann as their presidential candidate in a primary election marred by a cyberattack and divisions within the mainstream left.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
Fighters allied with the UAE say Abu Dhabi’s departure left a power vacuum the Saudis didn’t fill.

— Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026

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Patel, who was contacted by Yu via cold-email, was hooked after reading his script and immediately brought it to her colleagues.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026
The helicopter was configured for a 100-foot longline rescue, and after reaching the promontory, a tactical flight officer was lowered to the victim who was able to stand and be hooked to the rescue line and lifted off the bluff.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of hooked

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But Coyote has hitched his hopes for the mammoth case upon a man who could only be called a coward.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
Looks like an entire orbital launchpad could be hitched to a semi-truck and driven anywhere on Earth, thanks to space launch provider Rocket Lab.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of hitched

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Pupils clustered outside the doors of several schools in Paris and other cities in the morning hours, brandishing placards and megaphones and chanting slogans, and marches were planned later in the day.

— Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026
Placed somewhat sporadically throughout the lower half of Cruz’s dress, the flowers clustered near the neckline and went on to completely cover the straps.

— Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2026

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