splicing

Definition of splicingnext
present participle of splice

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for splicing
Verb
  • One writer, Tiffany Ng, chronicled her experience chaining her phone to the wall for a week.
    Angela Yang, NBC news, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Loomer settled for chaining herself to the company’s New York office.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • An already serious injury crisis is compounding.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • This structural and compounding loss heightened by sidelining Black women’s leaders drains institutions of current productivity and future leadership pipelines.
    Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Also mentioned is an auto-hitch system to simplify hooking it up to the tow vehicle.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The great Amazon in its north drains large areas as does the Parana-River Plate watershed to its south that reaches the Atlantic in the estuary between Argentina and Uruguay, The San Francisco flows north for hundreds of miles before hooking a right and dropping to the Atlantic.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Whereas Herbert is 0-2 in Chargers postseason games, Maye is making his first postseason appearance for the New England Patriots after assembling a most valuable player-caliber season.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2026
  • To suppress Americans peacefully assembling to protest his policies?
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Frequent mate switching combined with low reproductive ‘skew’ and possibly the active avoidance of mating with close relatives, may be effective strategies to maintaining the genetic health of relatively small populations.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Jackie and Shadow’s prior mating seasons have been marked by cycles of celebration and heartbreak.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Several Vanderpump Rules alumni aren't hitching their wagons to The Valley.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Getting stuck in some remote native village for 36 days while hitching rides.
    Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This aligns with broader market analyses showing renewable salary increases clustering in the low single digits in 2025, a sign that the sector is maturing out of its rapid expansion phase.
    Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Scikit-learn provides open-source tools for classification, regression, and clustering within the Python ecosystem.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Braverman shot down the idea of allying with her former party in an interview with the Telegraph.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Mothra is arguably Godzilla’s most famous kaiju co-star, having first appeared in her own standalone movie in 1961 before facing off against (or allying with) Godzilla in several movies throughout the Showa era.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
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“Splicing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splicing. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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