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Recent Examples of splice
Along the way, Levinson intercuts between Genovese’s and Costello’s lives while also splicing in later interview footage, black-and-white slides of the old days, flashbulbs exploding, and snippets of other scenes.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
In some cases, the Alpine Butterfly can also be used to isolate damaged sections of rope without having to cut or splice it.
—Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
His idea is to splice together VHS scenes from Bollywood movies with Buster Keaton and Chaplin flicks, a crime waiting to be discovered.
—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
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
In some cases, the Alpine Butterfly can also be used to isolate damaged sections of rope without having to cut or splice it.
—Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
His idea is to splice together VHS scenes from Bollywood movies with Buster Keaton and Chaplin flicks, a crime waiting to be discovered.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splice
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Manuelito woke up chained to the steering wheel of her patrol car, which Budge the nudged down into a ditch.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
27 Apr. 2025
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In February, Laurel Lingenfelter and her partner Rob fostered Terra, a heavily pregnant dog who was found chained to a tree.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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The police documents note that companies often hook customers into adopting the services through free trial offers, and in some cases the devices are communicating with cell towers even when users decline to subscribe.—
Dell Cameron,
Wired News,
28 Apr. 2025
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Bednarek gets there first and hooks it for a Bournemouth throw by the corner flag — the kind of high turnover Iraola wants.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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The Grizzlies' bad luck — compounded by bad play — has continued into the playoffs.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Food and Drug Administration allows compounding pharmacies to sell copies of drugs when the medications are in short supply.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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This cowboy is getting hitched and has the hat to match in matrimony.—
Teaghan Skulszki,
Outside Online,
12 Apr. 2025
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Despite his eternal smile suggesting otherwise, this male dugong seemed visibly annoyed by the dozen remoras hitching a free ride on him.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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The mission will be the ninth crew mission to Tiangong, and the sixth visit since the three-module orbital outpost was fully assembled in October 2022.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Foreign companies producing goods in the U.S. are also affected, like Airbus, which assembles some of its narrow-body planes in Alabama, but relies on imports.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,Annika Kim Constantino,Leslie Josephs,Ari Levy,Amelia Lucas,Melissa Repko,Hugh Son,Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2025
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Russian and allied North Korean soldiers have nearly deprived Kyiv of a key bargaining chip by retaking most of the region, where Ukrainian troops staged a surprise incursion last year.—
Hanna Arhirova,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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But in recent years, U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have flagged a more serious development: the growing use of romance scams and online financial fraud to fund jihadist terrorist activity — including operations linked to ISIS and its affiliates.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 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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The engine is mated to an 8-speed automatic transmission driving the front or all four wheels (all-wheel drive, engineered to maximize on-road traction, is offered on all trims).—
Michael Harley,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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The mill is mated to a four-speed automatic transmission that made 215 hp brand new.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Splice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splice. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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