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
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
At the other end, Rushworth tests Holder with a short ball, which he pulls off the splice for no run.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
“We wanted to distill the essence of the city and condense it and splice it up so we could get more of the feeling of a place in a smaller area,” Heath says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
The immediate task at hand was to carefully review, cut, and splice selections from the four hundred thousand feet of raw film she had shot at the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
Utility safety officials also said in a report that the company’s visual inspections of splices in its transmission lines were sometimes failing to find dangerous problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
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
Slowly, meticulously, he unwraps the coil, carries the entire looped mess downstairs, and calls Jutta inside to hold the pieces for him while he splices the breaks.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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ESRP2 binds to RNA and helps ensure that it is spliced correctly.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Cardinal Blase Cupich last month decried a video the White House posted online that spliced images of action scenes in movies with real videos of U.S. bombing in Iran.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 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
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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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
"The key innovation in the biosynthesis of tagatose was in finding the slime mold Gal1P enzyme and splicing it into our production bacteria," said Nair.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026
But the method required splicing DNA of different organisms and using bacteria to propagate samples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 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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