SPLICING Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

splicing

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present participle of splice

as in chaining

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OpenAI said its models found another route into Artifactory by chaining flaws involving Artifactory and JRuby behavior.

— Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Given the new realities of the AI age, including the chaining capabilities, companies like Microsoft might need to rethink their entire approach to triage, said Nguyen, the NSA’s former AI chief.

— Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 29 July 2026

Definition of chaining

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Guides tailor each day around conditions and what’s running, with trips that might involve swinging flies from a gravel bar, wading a gin-clear tributary, or floating miles of river in hopes of hooking a chrome-bright or rainbow-hued fish.

— Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2026
In the 1950s, people were hooking mammoth groupers, marine goliaths that could be six feet in length.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

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The project will add domestic capacity for assembling, integrating, and testing Wärtsilä engines used for ship propulsion and auxiliary power.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Nvidia is assembling a $500 billion pot from a who’s who of Wall Street firms which will, in turn, backstop OpenAI’s lease of a SoftBank data center in Ohio and help startups rent access to Nvidia’s chips from CoreWeave.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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Like Tubbs, Ferguson was new to the city, having only recently settled there after the better part of a year spent hitching trains with his pregnant girlfriend.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
The union called on the city to add hitching posts to the park where unattended horses can be secured.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026

Definition of hitching

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Rockstar has a track record of clustering major beats around its parent company’s reporting dates, and a trailer ahead of that call would give the company’s brass something to point at as a symbol of unquestionable success.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
CorPower's commercial plan involves clustering dozens of buoys into arrays called CorPacks, each capable of producing hundreds of megawatts.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 July 2026

Definition of clustering

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Since 2024, Microsoft has openly acknowledged that OpenAI is a competitor, and has been allying itself with other companies building AI models, including Musk's xAI, releasing those tools to developers through Azure.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 13 May 2026
Country has ‘strategic enemies’ on both sides Ghadban said his country had no interest in allying with either side in the war.

— Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026

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