splicing

verb

present participle of splice
as in chaining

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splicing
  1. chaining
  2. compounding
  3. hooking
  4. assembling
  5. mating
  6. hitching
  7. clustering
  8. allying
Verb
  • An agent spends at machine speed, retrying, looping and chaining calls without supervision on the AI meter.
    — Prashant Jalan, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Given the new realities of the AI age, including the chaining capabilities, companies like Microsoft might need to rethink their entire approach to triage, said Nguyen, the NSA’s former AI chief.
    — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 29 July 2026
Definition of chaining
Verb
  • Negative plays on offense lingered, too, with penalties taking away chunk plays and small mistakes compounding into setbacks.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The coincidence of the full moon Saturday is compounding the problem by raising high tide levels day by day.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of compounding
Verb
  • Ecobee says that just hooking this unit up can deliver up to 26% per year reductions on heating and cooling costs, which will pay for itself quickly.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • First, don’t rely on the industry to protect youth when its business model depends on hooking new customers and keeping them using their product.
    — Susan Morrisey, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of hooking
Verb
  • Teams are moving past small-scale lab tests and assembling the industrial supply chain needed to build actual power stations.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Don and Mera Rubell had spent decades assembling one of the world’s most important private collections of contemporary art.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • But though these chemicals are linked to mating in animal species, a link between pheromones and romantic attraction hasn’t been established in humans.
    — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Wild turkeys can be particularly aggressive during mating season.
    — Elan Abrell, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
Definition of mating
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  • For programmers, hitching their wagon to a large-scale tech platform is often worth giving up consumer data and revenue.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
  • After sunset, when everyone lopes back from the beach, there are a few couples hitching their gear onto motor scooters and a few families carrying babies, bags, and boards, toddlers in tow.
    — Michelle Jana Chan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of hitching
Verb
  • But clustering the high-end systems is an investment only a subset of users will ever need to make.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Keeping the molecules fixed within the plastic prevents them from clustering as easily.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of clustering
Verb
  • The first three wives are dressed in the same colors at first, while Bolanle and Baba Degi appear more in tandem, evidence of who is allying themselves with whom.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
  • In 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, formally allying the World War II Axis powers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of allying
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“Splicing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splicing. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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