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Recent Examples of splice
His idea is to splice together VHS scenes from Bollywood movies with Buster Keaton and Chaplin flicks, a crime waiting to be discovered.
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
Miller’s estate shared the trailer on YouTube, which splices clips of a little boy and his sprawling imaginary life of human-like animals going on a journey through a carnival.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
The two clips were captured on her doorbell camera before being spliced together by Burn for comic effect.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
In 1993, Dolce & Gabbana spliced up the image into puzzle pieces and printed an abstract version on blazers, midi dresses and bustier tops.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
Miller’s estate shared the trailer on YouTube, which splices clips of a little boy and his sprawling imaginary life of human-like animals going on a journey through a carnival.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
The two clips were captured on her doorbell camera before being spliced together by Burn for comic effect.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
In 1993, Dolce & Gabbana spliced up the image into puzzle pieces and printed an abstract version on blazers, midi dresses and bustier tops.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splice
Verb
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Over the course of a four-day period, the group spent every waking (and sleeping) hour together — going out to dinner, grocery shopping, bowling, etc. — all while chained together.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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And while the researchers don’t mention it, the obvious extension to this work is to chain together multiple jumps, and eventually to combine branch jumping with the ground jumping and wall jumping that Salto can do already to really give those squirrels a jump for their nuts.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
19 Mar. 2025
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After that, my friends and I attended the Midwest Gaming Classic, and I was hooked.—
Louryn Strampe,
Wired News,
15 Apr. 2025
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The prolific New York Times best-selling author hooked us with her debut, The Wedding Date, followed by a roster of page-turners featuring dynamic Black women.—
Mariette Williams,
Essence,
15 Apr. 2025
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This is often compounded by the belief that reinvesting everything back into the business is a virtue.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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And, compounding the financial stress, CapRadio staff discovered in spring 2023 that reserves shown in financial reports as $3 million actually had dwindled to $85,000.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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They got hitched in 2017 but Cardi filed for divorce in 2024 for the second time.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
2 Apr. 2025
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Resume details aside, while one hates to hitch an actress’s castability to something as random and mutable as her appearance, Pidgeon also has exactly the pensive, porcelain-skinned, vaguely patrician beauty necessary to make a credible CBK.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
22 Mar. 2025
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The basic act of assembling and protesting the government’s actions is unquestionably protected, according to the First Amendment Coalition, a California nonprofit that’s committed to protecting freedom of speech.—
Louryn Strampe,
Wired News,
9 Apr. 2025
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Just a few years after her 2021 graduation, Montgomery has upward of 200 clients who pay $10,000 for Montgomery’s team to fully design and assemble their dorms on move-in day.—
Madeline Fitzgerald,
Quartz,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The concept described, in unprecedented detail and across a range of contingencies, how U.S. and allied forces could be adapted to enhance deterrence and defense.—
Andrew F. Krepinevich,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Apr. 2025
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Both countries also worked together to draft plans for military actions, including counteroffensives in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions, The New York Times added, citing interviews with officials from the U.S. and allied countries.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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Rowling and longtime confederates Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts are exec producing, so she is expected to be involved in the decision-making on the series.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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Authorities are accusing Antonio Hernandez and confederates Ivan Murillo-Hernandez and Alexis Garcia Martinez of ripping off mail from unsuspecting venues with the help of four juveniles, whose names were not released.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2024
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If the weather is consistently warm and dry, the cicadas will finish mating sooner rather than later, which would mean a shorter season.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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Whether the existing dire wolves or others Colossal might produce will be allowed to mate and spawn a next generation of wolves naturally is not yet known.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Splice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splice. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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