SPLICING Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

splicing

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present participle of splice

as in chaining

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Interestingly, the modular design allows operators to rapidly assemble, connect, and scale up their power capacity by stacking or chaining additional units.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 May 2026
On day two, hacking teams were no less successful, chaining together three new vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange in order to achieve the holy grail of SYSTEM-level remote code execution.

— Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026

Definition of chaining

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Some early adopters are already compounding gains in efficiency, sales velocity, costs and visibility.

— Bohdan Savchuk, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
The Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee meets July 23-24 to consider restoring certain peptides to the list of substances eligible for compounding by licensed 503A pharmacies, with a follow-up meeting to be held before February 2027.

— Jerome Adams, STAT, 6 July 2026

Definition of compounding

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Still, there are challenges ahead, especially relating to the bureaucratic obstacles of building large energy projects and hooking them up to the grid.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 23 June 2026
An example of the previously undisclosed debauchery includes a pair female twins allegedly hooking themselves up to a car battery for $10,000.

— Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2026

Definition of hooking

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Hackman spent the past decade assembling one of the world’s largest studio portfolios during a time production was booming.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the military carried out a strike on arms industry facilities in Kyiv overnight, hitting a plant that was manufacturing components for Flamingo cruise missiles and a facility assembling mid- and long-range drones.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026

Definition of assembling

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Bucks will regrow their antlers every year ahead of mating season, and then shed them during the late winter, after mating season is over, according to Mississippi State University.

— Julia Gomez, USA Today, 30 June 2026
The New World screwworm's larvae eat live flesh and fluids instead of dead material, with females laying their eggs in open wounds and mucous membranes after mating only once in their monthslong lives.

— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 June 2026

Definition of mating

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The union called on the city to add hitching posts to the park where unattended horses can be secured.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026
The union also backed a separate City Council bill that only has eight sponsors, which would make several changes to horse carriage regulations, including more training and hitching posts in the park to tether the horses.

— Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 19 June 2026

Definition of hitching

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Leaders can reduce transition tax by clustering similar work, shortening meeting chains, and creating reset rituals between modes.

— Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Unlike conventional cement, however, this new C-S-H develops throughout the material rather than clustering around cement particles.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026

Definition of clustering

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Since 2024, Microsoft has openly acknowledged that OpenAI is a competitor, and has been allying itself with other companies building AI models, including Musk's xAI, releasing those tools to developers through Azure.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 13 May 2026
Country has ‘strategic enemies’ on both sides Ghadban said his country had no interest in allying with either side in the war.

— Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026

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