SPLICED Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

spliced

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past tense of splice

as in compounded

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No one knows all the factors behind the population’s recent boom, although researchers point to recent extreme weather events and climate change, perhaps compounded with a rise in shipping traffic over recent decades.

— Kasha Patel, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Much of today's wealth descends from legacy benefits of inheritance and returns on capital compounded across decades of peace and a stable workforce.

— Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 17 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

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Vingegaard’s victory at the Giro d’Italia in May, allied with Wout Van Aert’s cathartic win at Paris-Roubaix, has delivered two key objectives but the surprise departure of head of racing Grischa Niermann to Lidl-Trek was a blow.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Tipu’s kingdom finally fell in 1799, when British and allied forces overwhelmed his fortress at Seringapatam, a few hours’ drive from present-day Bangalore.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 2 July 2026

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As Spain’s World Cup-winning heroes assembled on the podium, opponents Argentina, bedraggled and beaten, turned their backs.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
The site where Americans learned to work with the last foreign future is where the next one is being assembled.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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The sun lashed everyone who arrived — some voluntarily, others hooked and lowered like cattle into the mines.

— Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
In the doc, Gelfand said there was another incident involving two twins who hooked themselves up to a car battery for 10 seconds in exchange for $10,000.

— Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 14 July 2026

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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
With both the bride and groom wearing Christian Dior haute couture and Christian Louboutin shoes, the 14x Grammy winner and 3x Super Bowl champion were hitched within the last half hour at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 July 2026

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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
Yellow evidence markers charted at least 28 shells from the exchange of gunfire, most of them clustered around the driver’s side door of Heflin’s cruiser.

— Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2026

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