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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splicing
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One writer, Tiffany Ng, chronicled her experience chaining her phone to the wall for a week.—
Angela Yang, NBC news, 25 Dec. 2025
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Loomer settled for chaining herself to the company’s New York office.—
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One Punch/Getty Images The borrowing landscape can be tough to navigate right now, especially for those who are carrying compounding debt at today's high rates.—
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At the same time, rising rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity are compounding that risk.—
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Also mentioned is an auto-hitch system to simplify hooking it up to the tow vehicle.—
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The great Amazon in its north drains large areas as does the Parana-River Plate watershed to its south that reaches the Atlantic in the estuary between Argentina and Uruguay, The San Francisco flows north for hundreds of miles before hooking a right and dropping to the Atlantic.—
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Whereas Herbert is 0-2 in Chargers postseason games, Maye is making his first postseason appearance for the New England Patriots after assembling a most valuable player-caliber season.—
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To suppress Americans peacefully assembling to protest his policies?—
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In the animal kingdom, mammals play dead so that a predator will lose interest in them; some female dragonflies do it to avoid mating.—
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These close evolutionary neighbors sometimes share DNA, including potentially beneficial mutations, by mating across the species lines defined by humans’ classification systems.—
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Several Vanderpump Rules alumni aren't hitching their wagons to The Valley.—
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Getting stuck in some remote native village for 36 days while hitching rides.—
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Economists warn that an increasing share of top university graduates clustering in the public sector rather than pursuing entrepreneurial or high-risk private-sector paths could weigh on longer-term economic growth.—
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The program is part of a new pilot, funded by state and federal dollars, to improve the safety of entire neighborhoods by clustering the improvements.—
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Mothra is arguably Godzilla’s most famous kaiju co-star, having first appeared in her own standalone movie in 1961 before facing off against (or allying with) Godzilla in several movies throughout the Showa era.—
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The King of Pop was allying himself with the King of Rock and Roll.—
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“Splicing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splicing. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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