piece together
Example Sentences
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Confused, the mix of tuxedo-clad attendees, uniformed hotel guards and waitstaff tried to piece together what had happened.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
The judgment, passed on Monday, uses witness statements and police evidence to piece together what happened that June evening in 2018.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
By studying three Captorhinus specimens from Richards Spur, researchers were able to piece together how this animal breathed.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
It was there, in Nashville, 48 hours after the bombing, that he first began to piece together what had happened in Oklahoma.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026
I looked up his case and began to piece together his story.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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