piece together
Example Sentences
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This month, Slovenia’s intelligence department began reaching out to other European spy agencies to try to identify the visitors—and piece together a mystery that has reverberations from Ukraine to Israel to the war in Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
In space, scientists use a similar approach called galactic archaeology to piece together the history of stars and galaxies.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
Authorities are reviewing video footage and interviewing witnesses to piece together the timeline of events.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
From there, investigators can sometimes find distant relatives to help piece together a family tree that can point to a suspect, said CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogist and co-founder of DNA Justice.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
The odd strained shapes that I had tried to piece together with my fumbling fingers and they had never fitted.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
