splice
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Four years ago, he left cell tower work to manage fiber crews, then saw how much this particular specialty makes—sometimes upward of $30 per splice for projects like this—and moved into that role.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
"There is a splice site in Homer1 that can be pharmacologically targeted, which may be an ideal way to help dial the knob on brain signal-to-noise levels," Rajasethupathy says.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2026
Rather than stingily splice the historical sources, as the Carralero court did, those judges drew upon the historical principles that justified locational restrictions.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2024
The local fishermen too said they were particularly wary of these boats as they are more prone to sinking and often splice their nets.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2023
I remember holding the bite of a line while Tom drove pegs and braided a splice.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Daniel Mason splices together different narrative strands to create a single story connecting its successive inhabitants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Another early highlight, Reliquia, chops and splices a chamber quartet into unrecognisable electronic patterns, as Rosalía reconciles herself to the idea that she loves too hard, and locates the beauty in that vulnerability.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
The active splicing factor splices out the inhibitory exon in the transcription factor, which turns on the genes that produce collagen.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024
On every film I’ve ever done, including “Oppenheimer,” I first showed it to the studio on cut and copy, taped together, splices and everything.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Slowly, meticulously, he unwraps the coil, carries the entire looped mess downstairs, and calls Jutta inside to hold the pieces for him while he splices the breaks.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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The video is a compilation of clips of charismatic Christian prophet Kim Clement, spliced together from 2007 appearances in California and Arizona.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
The product wasn’t profitable, and every user who spliced themselves into a World War II newsreel or Hollywood chase scene drew down a finite resource.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
The Instagram post promoting the handbag, which has a label to say it was made using AI, shows a "surreal" collage of models spliced between Valentino logos and its DeVain bag.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
He requested to know if the BBC had provided either video or audio of the spliced comments to either the PBS television channel or NPR radio in the United States.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
Waiting for them to cross a yawning crevasse bridged by two rickety ladders spliced end to end, I was shocked to see them go across together, almost in lockstep—a needlessly dangerous act.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Some are using genetic testing and exploring gene splicing to produce children with desired traits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
He said the error did not amount to "innocent splicing".
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
What her character sees, where she chooses to stand and look, makes up much of the film, although the editing team does phenomenal work splicing in other characters’ points of view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
The new lawsuit filed by Baldoni accuses the New York Times of cherry-picking texts, stripping them of context and deliberately splicing them to mislead readers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025
“I suppose you thought you could hide,” she said to the kitchen table, where Mia had been carefully splicing a photograph of a dog and a man together.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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