spliced

verb

past tense of splice
as in compounded

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  1. compounded
  2. chained
  3. allied
  4. assembled
  5. hooked
  6. hitched
  7. mated
  8. clustered
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  • The money shows up after the tuition is paid, after most of the mortgage is gone, after the decades when capital could have compounded into something larger.
    — Jon Sabes, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026
  • While every other major travel name compounded year after year, ABNB went essentially flat for two consecutive years.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of compounded
Verb
  • The agents chained together a series of vulnerabilities to reach the open web and eventually gained access to Hugging Face.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • During the protest, participants wore wedding dresses, duct-taped their mouths and chained their wrists on the Capitol steps to call on lawmakers to pass the measure.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of chained
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  • So, what will governments, especially those allied to the United States, actually conclude?
    — Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Its model could also connect other American and allied ore deposits with industries that currently depend heavily on foreign supply.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of allied
Verb
  • Engineers have assembled a prototype air-cooling rig to test the passive safety systems.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
  • High prices, closed factories Anderson said from January to July this year, there were about 689,000 vehicles assembled in Canada.
    — Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembled
Verb
  • Although my pole reaches the branches, the wire at the end is too pliable and the branches too strong to be hooked and pulled down.
    — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Their toxic, lusty friendship and the show’s crime mystery subplots had viewers hooked.
    — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of hooked
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • For the past eight years, that's when Jackie and Shadow have mated and begun reinforcing their longtime nest.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The handcrafted mill is mated to a nine-speed automatic transmission and makes 621 hp and 664 ft lbs of torque.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of mated
Verb
  • Most of them, the researchers found, ended up being scored as cost reduction, while the largest returns clustered among the companies that aimed AI at revenue instead.
    — Sreedhar Peddineni, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • With art storage facilities, galleries, and museums clustered along its canals, Tennoz is one of Tokyo’s leading art districts.
    — The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of clustered
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