Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for splicing
Verb
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Loomer settled for chaining herself to the company’s New York office.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
27 Oct. 2025 -
Many Spanish eateries keep tables and chairs outdoors, even after hours, by stacking them together and even chaining them to deter theft.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Meanwhile, the consequences of the shutdown have been compounding.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
10 Nov. 2025
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Systems that could reliably use a laptop with human-level proficiency and without compounding hallucinations could perform many jobs currently done by remote workers.—
Tharin Pillay,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The third came four seconds after the Bruins killed an Eyssimont hooking penalty.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Hahn and Jeff Glaid, the WGFD biologist who conducted the study, told a room full of anglers in 2024 that if regulations didn’t change, and hooking injuries to fish — like bottom jaws torn off and severe scarring — continued, the department would have to start restocking in earnest.—
Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The exhilarating Christmas Eve in Miller's Point wastes no time in assembling its massive cast of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws, and pet lizards.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Nov. 2025
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Tony Vitello will be tasked with assembling a new group of pitching coaches.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Adults emerge from the pupae and begin feeding, mating and laying eggs.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Fall is mating season for elk in places like Rocky Mountain National Park and Yellowstone, and approaching too closely can put both humans and animals at risk.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Getting stuck in some remote native village for 36 days while hitching rides.—
Corky Carroll,
Oc Register,
18 Oct. 2025
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The researchers had shown in 2023 that parasitic scraps of DNA could spread within bacterial populations by hitching rides on the tails of infecting viruses.—
Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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And, through it all, the objects with mass and/or energy in the Universe gravitate, clumping and clustering together to form a great cosmic web.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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The pins appear to march through the entire valley, overlaying each other and clustering at the locations of ranches and farms.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The King of Pop was allying himself with the King of Rock and Roll.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Sep. 2025
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The King of Pop was allying himself with the King of Rock & Roll.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Splicing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splicing. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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