splicing

present participle of splice

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Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Paired with compounding storage and legal fees, companies often find themselves under immense fiscal pressure when trying to prove fair labor practices throughout their sourcing.
    Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • But in recent years, compounding pharmacies pivoted hard into making their own, off-brand versions of weight-loss drugs like semaglutide and tirzepatide, creating a cheaper alternative to the brand-name drugs and taking a meaningful piece of the market.
    Daniel Gilbert, CBS News, 8 June 2026
Verb
  • However, the episode ends with a fisherman hooking an unknown big catch in the very lake where the billionaire's body lies.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • The closest thing in effort required is hooking the robot when it’s done, emptying out its filter basket and putting it back on the charger.
    Brad Moon, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
Verb
  • As a row of kids delighted in mixing cotton candy and frozen lemonade into an only-at-the-ballpark dessert, the usher alerted the parents that a mass of boisterous and predominantly shirtless men soon would be assembling in a nearby section.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
  • Somewhere a hand was raised, a whistle was blown, and all at once the butchers were out of their stalls, assembling in the aisles.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • By mating with sterile flies, the females don't produce more flies and outbreaks can eventually be halted.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 June 2026
  • By mating with sterile flies, the females don’t produce more flies and outbreaks can eventually be halted.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
Verb
  • Investing in business development companies often means hitching our wagons to the market’s most prominent asset managers.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • Within two years of being published, Longfellow’s book had sold fifty thousand copies, and Lewis recognized the commercial appeal of hitching a sculpture to a popular story.
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • In mid-2025, the ARISE team reported that the best-performing model achieved a 70% success rate, with most failures clustering around tasks requiring three or more steps.
    Spencer Dorn, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Verb
  • 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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“Splicing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splicing. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.

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