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
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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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  • Many are not eligible to be dispensed by compounding pharmacies, and experts warn that rising demand is fueling an unregulated online market that could be dangerous.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
  • Importantly, inclusion on the 503A pathway would not represent FDA approval or confirmation of clinical efficacy, but rather a regulatory mechanism allowing compounding under specific conditions.
    — Robert Glatter, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of compounding
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  • In the 1950s, people were hooking mammoth groupers, marine goliaths that could be six feet in length.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • As the arrows on the chart indicate, the red line (sellers) is hooking down and the green line (buyers) is hooking up.
    — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 7 July 2026
Definition of hooking
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  • Why hardware is notoriously difficult To build and ship a family of new devices, the Ive-OpenAI alliance will need to be hyper-focused, including assembling a manufacturing system from scratch.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 22 July 2026
  • Microsoft's Agent Operating System Rather than focusing exclusively on the model layer, Microsoft is assembling what increasingly looks like an operating system for agents.
    — Francis Sideco, Forbes.com, 21 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, the university stated on its website.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 23 July 2026
  • Wild turkeys can be particularly aggressive during mating season.
    — Elan Abrell, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
Definition of mating
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  • Like Tubbs, Ferguson was new to the city, having only recently settled there after the better part of a year spent hitching trains with his pregnant girlfriend.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of hitching
Verb
  • Rockstar has a track record of clustering major beats around its parent company’s reporting dates, and a trailer ahead of that call would give the company’s brass something to point at as a symbol of unquestionable success.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • CorPower's commercial plan involves clustering dozens of buoys into arrays called CorPacks, each capable of producing hundreds of megawatts.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 July 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
Definition of allying
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