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
He turned off the camera, blasted hardcore punk and began to splice his reel together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
When a gene is copied into a raw RNA transcript, it usually can be processed in different ways to form distinct splice variants or isoforms; thus, a single gene may produce several different proteins.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 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
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
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
In one scene, when Jackie is feeling trapped, the editing splices in an insert of a boiling coffee percolator and an old news clip of the Berlin Wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Werner rewinds the resistance track and splices the wires and plugs in the radio.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Instead of simply measuring the total amounts of RNA and protein, as many studies do, Kalsotra's team used deep RNA sequencing and computational analysis to examine how RNA fragments were being spliced.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as MoIIoy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way: “There I am then, he leaves me, he’s in a hurry.”
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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After treatment, ESRP2 levels recovered, and RNA splicing became more normal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Far from simply pressing a button, film projectionists must actively guide a screening, threading and splicing reels and closely monitoring for mechanical issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
“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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