spliced

verb

past tense of splice
as in compounded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spliced
  1. compounded
  2. chained
  3. allied
  4. assembled
  5. hooked
  6. hitched
  7. mated
  8. clustered
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  • From Texas to the Upper Midwest, the heat will be compounded by high humidity.
    — Daniel Amarante, ABC News, 26 July 2026
  • This is compounded by a chronic failure to honor requests for mail to be held.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2026
Definition of compounded
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  • The company said advanced cyber-capable models could ultimately become useful defensive tools, helping security teams identify vulnerabilities, understand how individual weaknesses can be chained together and respond to attacks faster.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
  • Though Felipe was originally chained inside a hole in the woods, he was moved to Esmeralda Farm out of caution that he might be found.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
Definition of chained
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  • Real resilience requires multiple independent paths for critical missions, utilizing diverse government, commercial, and allied capabilities across various architectures and supply chains.
    — Charles Beames, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Other Democratic committees and allied super PACs are considerably better funded, raising questions about whether major donors increasingly see them as more effective vehicles than the DNC.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 27 July 2026
Definition of allied
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  • The French Laundry has assembled a remarkable collection of rare and vintage spirits, including Scotch whisky, bourbon, Cognac, Armagnac and Chartreuse.
    — Yuri Shima, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • Steady and spectacular and dedicated to his craft on defense, Swanson embodies the group of position players the Cubs have assembled.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 26 July 2026
Definition of assembled
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  • She was hooked by Punch after her daughter in the Philippines told her about the monkey.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026
  • The first documentary that really hooked her was Black Barbie on Netflix.
    — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 23 July 2026
Definition of hooked
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  • Before getting hitched to Greenstein, Porizkova was married to musician Ric Ocasek.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 17 July 2026
  • But when her big bro Sherlock (Henry Cavill) goes missing during the festivities, Enola pauses getting hitched to find him and also unearth a military cover-up.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026
Definition of hitched
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  • That engine is mated to a 4-speed semi-automatic transmission and a centrifugal clutch (also like Honda's), topping out at 43 mph (70 km/h).
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 July 2026
  • That mill is mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 26 June 2026
Definition of mated
Verb
  • Conceptual plans showed a series of four-story apartment buildings clustered at one end of the property.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
  • Hundreds of thousands of people clustered along the Space Coast shoreline, on beaches and in parking lots, to view Saturn V’s ascent.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 14 July 2026
Definition of clustered
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