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Recent Examples of splice
Due to the unconventional passage of time, the entire movie is spliced into disordered moments from Páramo’s past and Preciado’s present.
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Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
But Feliciano allegedly pulled out a knife and plunged it deep into the bouncer’s neck, splicing through his tongue, cops said.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 24 Nov. 2024
The Perfect Couple also strangely follows Big Little Lies’ format of splicing catty police-interrogation sequences between actually important scenes.
—Patricia Karounos, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Fede Álvarez’s legacy sequel pulls off a satisfying trick, splicing together the old and new to create something genuinely freakish.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
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Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
But Feliciano allegedly pulled out a knife and plunged it deep into the bouncer’s neck, splicing through his tongue, cops said.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 24 Nov. 2024
The Perfect Couple also strangely follows Big Little Lies’ format of splicing catty police-interrogation sequences between actually important scenes.
—Patricia Karounos, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Fede Álvarez’s legacy sequel pulls off a satisfying trick, splicing together the old and new to create something genuinely freakish.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
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Further down the hall, a shaft of light illuminated another German shepherd, chained up between piles of rubble.Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
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Her mother allegedly responded with more intense physical punishments and by chaining her to her bed.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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It was known that David Tennant was leaving the show at this point, so an episode promising to introduce the new Doctor before Tennant's departure had the whole fanbase hooked.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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And while the Season 1 twist hooked enough viewers to perhaps justify that expense, the second season not only needs to remind them what happened years ago, but also pay off on the mystery—a feat few puzzle box shows accomplish.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
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Many of her old, often dismissive interviews also surfaced online, compounding the public’s negative perception of her.Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 21 Dec. 2024
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The shelling in recent weeks has compounded the desperation.Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 21 Dec. 2024
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Several Vanderpump Rules alumni aren't hitching their wagons to The Valley.Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
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Apart from being wonderfully warm and water-repellant, our testers noted that its 50- and 70-denier fabric held strong when carrying skis and hitching snowmobiles.Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2024
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The character references Hughes assembled were glowing and, crucially, Slot also had the self-belief to embrace the challenge of following in Klopp’s footsteps.James Pearce, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
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The camper components ship as a flat pack and assemble together without the need for tools or adhesives.New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Dec. 2024
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But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants a military hold on northern Syria and an end to the enclave held by a Kurdish militia allied with Washington.Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
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Kirby said North Korean troops are taking casualties in the fighting and promised a strong U.S. and allied sanctions response to North Korea.Samya Kullab and Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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Rowling and longtime confederates Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts are exec producing, so she is expected to be involved in the decision-making on the series.Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Dec. 2024
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Authorities are accusing Antonio Hernandez and confederates Ivan Murillo-Hernandez and Alexis Garcia Martinez of ripping off mail from unsuspecting venues with the help of four juveniles, whose names were not released.Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
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During those years, its V-8 engine grew in displacement from 429 cubic inches to 472 cubic inches to 500 cubic inches, all mated to a three-speed automatic transmission driving the front wheels.Robert Ross, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2024
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The main component of this exquisite beast's powertrain is a custom 4-liter twin-turbo flat-plane crank V8 engine, mated to a new 8-speed Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT).New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Splice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splice. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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