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Verb
Both the original Godzilla film—produced in Japan less than a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and the 1956 version released in the States (with a performance by the actor Raymond Burr spliced in for American audiences) are somber and even daring for the time.—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 10 July 2025 Below are just a handful of actors, from Josh Brolin to Uma Thurman, who gave their all only to see their performances spliced out of the finished cut.—EW.com, 19 June 2025
Noun
In the accompanying music video for the song, DeMarco canoes near his mother’s home in Canada and splices in shots of geese.—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025 The trailer for the tour splices clips recorded on film of the singer’s one-night-only performance of the album live at El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles.—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for splice
Word History
Etymology
Verb
obsolete Dutch splissen; akin to Middle Dutch splitten to split
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