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Recent Examples of splice
With peppy opening notes spliced with mandarin orange, Coco Mademoiselle has a heart of jasmine and rose and a creamy, woody base of tonka bean, vanilla, patchouli, vetiver, and white musk.
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Jenny Berg, Allure, 20 Apr. 2025
With unseen home movies and restored footage from the eponymous One to One benefit concert, spliced together with era-specific material, the distributor is calling this an audacious, experiential and unprecedented look into the lives of the iconic couple.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2025
Armando Iannucci’s Veep, which ran through most of Trump’s first term, became frequent shorthand for his regime’s dysfunction, its end credits and closing theme spliced into news footage of the facepalm of the week.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025
While sets could be made from ivory, the majority were made from inexpensive cow bone spliced with bamboo.
—Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
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Jenny Berg, Allure, 20 Apr. 2025
With unseen home movies and restored footage from the eponymous One to One benefit concert, spliced together with era-specific material, the distributor is calling this an audacious, experiential and unprecedented look into the lives of the iconic couple.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2025
Armando Iannucci’s Veep, which ran through most of Trump’s first term, became frequent shorthand for his regime’s dysfunction, its end credits and closing theme spliced into news footage of the facepalm of the week.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025
While sets could be made from ivory, the majority were made from inexpensive cow bone spliced with bamboo.
—Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splice
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At point there, while two of the men were handcuffed and chained at the feet, one of them slammed his body into another, leading to a shouting match and law enforcement separating the two.—
Matt Finn,
FOXNews.com,
21 May 2025
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They were shackled and chained, and footage of them was shared on X on April 4 by Michael W. Banks, chief of U.S. Border Patrol.—
Diaa Hadid,
NPR,
19 May 2025
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On successive casts after that, Corwin hooks numerous nonnative fish.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
22 May 2025
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Still, that indicates a good amount of interest, and I’m certainly hooked after the first episode.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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No further details have been revealed; watch the trailer to compound the mystery below, and scroll down for the band’s dates.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
21 May 2025
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His rivalry with Machar is compounded by ethnic divisions.—
Cara Anna,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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The company has refined the trailer somewhat in that time, but its main selling points remain the same: the ability to hitch itself to a towing vehicle and set itself up at the campground.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
8 May 2025
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Load it with lumber, hitch a trailer, or even drive into a strong headwind, and that figure can drop faster than your enthusiasm on a Monday morning.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 May 2025
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And — deep breath — assembling rockets at Cape Canaveral.—
Pat Beall,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 May 2025
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Currently, the modules are manually assembled in a factory with builder partners.—
Jennifer Castenson,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Senior officials in the U.S. and allied nations saw this as a clear warning that China may be preparing a major action short of an invasion against Taiwan.—
Thomas Wright,
The Atlantic,
28 May 2025
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In order to encourage the creation and uptake of best practices and risk mitigations, an adaptive framework requires working in conjunction with interaction, allied, partner, and commercial space system operators.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes.com,
28 May 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,
27 May 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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This also suggests the engine will be mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission and, possibly, split power between all four wheels.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
27 May 2025
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These two species can mate with one another, producing a hybrid, which can produce viable offspring.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
25 May 2025
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“Splice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splice. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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