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
At the other end, Rushworth tests Holder with a short ball, which he pulls off the splice for no run.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
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
For a short time, I wondered how to splice the second battery's leads into the main power supply.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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
The video for the track splices footage of Cole Palmer's goals for Chelsea with shots of Nemzzz in London.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024
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
Carr wrote in the letter, seen by AFP, that the broadcast by the BBC's Panorama programme spliced together clips that were 54 minutes apart.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
As for the Super Bowl controversy, the host deftly addressed it by showing a spliced together Fox News clip with hosts saying, “Bad Bunny is my favorite musician and he should be the next president.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025
It’s as if the others took samples of her story and spliced them together.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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A multicam editor is often splicing in laughs from different takes, or for Viola, adding the laughs in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
"The key innovation in the biosynthesis of tagatose was in finding the slime mold Gal1P enzyme and splicing it into our production bacteria," said Nair.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026
Some are using genetic testing and exploring gene splicing to produce children with desired traits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Trying out mixes, considering hundreds of audio samples, scooping out tonal frequencies, splicing together temporary music cues, listening and listening again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
Reich was fascinated by the creative possibilities of splicing up tape recordings and putting them back together again in collage or repetitive sequence, inspiring, among others, The Beatles to do likewise.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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