as in chip
a small flat piece separated from a whole
a splint off the board
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Recent Examples of splint
Vanderbilt had his finger taped and had a splint on the finger after the game.
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Broderick Turner
follow,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
Your doctor may also prescribe corticosteroids, which are synthetic anti-inflammatory medicines, or suggest using a splint or brace to help relieve pressure on the area.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
The hospital's remaining staffers got creative, making beds and crutches out of wood and using clothes instead of gauze for makeshift splints.
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ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
The 49ers Hall of Fame safety had his pinkie mangled on a tackle during a game in 1985, and played with a splint before having the digit amputated after the season.
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Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
13 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for splint
Broderick Turner
follow,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
Your doctor may also prescribe corticosteroids, which are synthetic anti-inflammatory medicines, or suggest using a splint or brace to help relieve pressure on the area.
—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
The hospital's remaining staffers got creative, making beds and crutches out of wood and using clothes instead of gauze for makeshift splints.
—
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
The 49ers Hall of Fame safety had his pinkie mangled on a tackle during a game in 1985, and played with a splint before having the digit amputated after the season.
—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
13 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for splint
Recent Examples of Synonyms for splint
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Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan, who met Modi last December, also signed up as a prospective buyer for chips made by Tata Electronics.
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Bring along a bag of your favorite chips for dipping and enjoy!
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How can a sliver of that game day vibrancy be repeated on the average weekday?
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As a destination, Italy has exploded in popularity since the pandemic and the airing of the Max hit series The White Lotus, which broadcast just a sliver of what the country can offer visitors.
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On director Rupert Wyatt’s Desert Warrior (2025), Mettler was the lead film editor, splinter unit director and associate producer.
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But as the season neared the winter transfer window, the expectation was for Mainoo to leave on loan rather than continue to pick up splinters on the bench.
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Seventy of the dogs were X-rayed on site, and many showed evidence of bullet fragments.
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Multiple fractures with missing fragments, fetlock open and disarticulated, severe soft-tissue damage.
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With grit and one-liners, this American hero navigates air vents and glass shards to save the day.
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Two GB10s leverage a software technology called tensor parallelism to split, or shard, an AI model across both machines, harnessing them as a team to share the load and deliver results.
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At Sunda New Asian, Vanilla Ice Cream & Turon Spring Roll served with premium kaluga caviar, ube rice crispy, lychee, cookie flakes, seasonal fruit, passion fruit coulis, and ube glaze.
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On the plus side, the image processing did well in spotting the cilantro flakes and string beans, creating sharp contrast lines between the green accents and the rest of the meal.
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“Splint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splint. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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