pieced

past tense of piece

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Recent Examples of pieced Search warrants filed in court in Watauga County detail how police pieced the case together. Julia Coin updated July 31, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2026 Among the most harrowing was an overhead photograph of Rivas’ body pieced back together on a metal table, her face skeletonized. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026 Over the course of the clip, which has been reversed, the room is slowly pieced back together until it is returned to its perfect state. Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026 Following the Japanese art form Kintsugi, the packaging is made up of gold- and silver-filled pottery fragments to resemble a broken heart pieced back together. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 July 2026 Milton was one or two plays away from some elite wins early on in the year, and have finally pieced them together as winners in seven of its last eight to crack the top 10. Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 20 May 2026 More recently, advisers have begun expanding their purview beyond acquisitions into estate planning, collection management, and institutional strategy, and Pirtle sees her pitch as one that links those strands should together, rather than having them be pieced out across different specialists. Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026 Years later, after fans repeatedly demanded the full version, Swift pieced it together into the now-iconic 10-minute track. Bryan West, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026 The Herald pieced some of the correspondence together in order to draw as complete a picture as possible of the various cases. Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pieced
Verb
  • Homes can be visually inspected for compliance from the outside, and enclosing the ground level area for living space after the home is constructed and approved for occupancy would draw a reverse work order.
    Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • This is what Prada, in collaboration with 2x4, an environments and branding firm, has constructed around its flagship Fifth Avenue building this spring.
    Lauren Sinclair, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Weston fears that tranquility could soon be harder to find once the Black Mountain Energy data center is built behind her gardens.
    Marissa Armas, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Featuring two pads built for high-frequency flight campaigns, this addition brings Rocket Lab’s global network to six operational pads across two hemispheres, expanding beyond its active sites in New Zealand (LC-1) and Virginia (LC-2 and LC-3).
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Shuttle missions deployed and serviced satellites, launched the Hubble Space Telescope, assembled much of the International Space Station, and flew 135 missions over three decades.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
  • That mind is a model, an enormous statistical object assembled by feeding it a quantity of text and images nobody has ever fully itemized.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The project is being made in association with Hathiramani Commercial Ventures and co-produced with investor and entrepreneur Manish Hathiramani, who marks his producing debut with the show.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The press had also waned, likely through fatigue, by the time a host of substitutions, including Mbeumo, Amad, and Zirkzee were made on the hour mark.
    Cerys Jones, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

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“Pieced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pieced. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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