splicing

present participle of splice

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Verb
  • The sight of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents handcuffing and chaining the wrists, waists and ankles of skilled technicians shocked South Koreans.
    Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Despite the fact that not all of its facilities were complete, Natcast had plans to proceed with research by chaining together existing infrastructure around the country.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Further compounding the crisis, worker unrest led to the closure of Pacific Jeans, one of Bangladesh’s largest denim producers.
    Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
  • As children get older, Brennan suggests teaching kids about compounding using 10, 10 and 10.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By then Carolina had extended its advantage to two thanks again to Jarvis, who capitalized on the visitors’ third power play – hooking by Jackson LaCombe – with a one-time wrist shot from the right circle for his sixth goal of the season.
    Josh Gross, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • With deals on Apple AirPods, Vera Bradley bags, Neutrogena makeup wipes, and Dreo portable space heaters, Amazon is hooking you up for the fall, winter, and beyond.
    Shalwah Evans, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But Apple has also faced challenges in its early experiments manufacturing in the country, most notably at a Wistron factory in Bengaluru assembling older model iPhones, which saw a labor riot in late 2020.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Another phenomenon at play, though, is an adjustment in how teams are assembling themselves, especially given that three preseason top-3 squads since 2022 have ultimately fallen to unranked at some point in the season.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some were actively reproducing, with females found carrying eggs and males observed successfully mating.
    James T. Stroud, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Male ratfish have a structure called a tenaculum, which is essentially a retractable rod tipped with a chandelier of teeth that springs out of their forehead to grip females during mating.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Getting stuck in some remote native village for 36 days while hitching rides.
    Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The King of Pop was allying himself with the King of Rock and Roll.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
  • 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 23 Oct. 2025.

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