spliced

past tense of splice

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spliced
Verb
  • Tensions were further compounded by steep US tariffs on many Indian exports.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
  • The failure is not only one of policy, but of execution — compounded by a political culture increasingly unwilling to measure outcomes honestly, to welcome scrutiny, or to honestly confront evidence that favored approaches are failing.
    Michele Steeb, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • In 1966, a woman chained herself to the Golden Gate Bridge.
    Neda Maghbouleh August 18, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Wednesday comes face-to-face with Tyler, who is chained to the wall by the wrists and has an electric-shock collar on his neck.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Though separate from the Afghan Taliban, the TTP is closely allied with it, and many of its fighters are believed to have taken refuge in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power there in 2021.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Hezbollah — a primarily Shiite group — has allied with several Christian political groups in the country, including the Free Patriotic Movement and Marada Movement.
    CBS News, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Across a 90-foot wall at the Orlando Museum of Art, Tommerup assembled three monumental pyramids built from canvases dragged through the ocean and Biscayne Bay, dried in flowering trees and tossed from rooftops at dusk, surrendering part of the creative process to nature itself.
    Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
  • Yngen, now 71, has assembled a younger team of co-founders to scale the business, including chief executive Emil Clase.
    Heather Farmbrough, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • Above us, a workman hooked onto a steel gantry drills loudly.
    Story by Billy Perrigo, Time, 4 June 2026
  • If Microsoft’s goal is to indeed make its AI addictive, the first people getting hooked are from its own workforce, with the document claiming that more than 1,000 employees, including CEO Satya Nadella, are using the new tool.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Bernal donated the bulb to the fire department in 1901 to illuminate a hose cart house, where firefighters once hitched their horses to a trolley before riding out to battle fires.
    Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 14 June 2026
  • Lively even hitched a piggyback ride from her husband.
    Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • Under the hood of the final Bolide is a W-16 engine making 1,578 horsepower, mated to a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2025
  • This is where the grizzlies played, fought and mated in the summer months.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Chinese telecom giant Huawei in September revealed its multi-year plans to create chips that would have the most computing power in the world when clustered at scale, according to the company.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Oslo shares around 120 miles of land border with Moscow, Norwegian soil stopping not far west of Russia's major military bases clustered around the Arctic cities of Murmansk and Severomorsk.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
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“Spliced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spliced. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.

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