piecing (together)

verb

present participle of piece (together)
1
as in building

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2
as in figuring out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piecing (together)
  1. building
  2. figuring out
  3. constructing
  4. working out
  5. assembling
  6. solving
  7. compounding
  8. writing
Verb
  • That is a new discipline, and the businesses building it now will have a significant head start.
    — Derya Matras, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • On land, over 1,000 trees were preserved while building the resort.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of building
Verb
  • The first step to brighter-looking underarms is figuring out what might be irritating them in the first place.
    — Glamour, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Shuter is reporting that this isn’t just about figuring out what happened, but about real accountability.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of figuring out
Verb
  • Compass is constructing five hyperscale data centers on the former Sears Headquarters campus.
    — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • This includes repairing roofs, modernizing classrooms, upgrading heating and cooling systems, improving security and constructing new buildings.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of constructing
Verb
  • Two years of eating brownies and pizza as meals, never working out, and entrepreneurial pressure had snowballed into gastrointestinal reflux disease.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026
  • This pre-season, Jadon Sancho spent time at Flixton FC, working out in private training sessions on the banks of the once busy Manchester Ship Canal.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of working out
Verb
  • Mark Zuckerberg is also establishing a family compound Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is worth $261 billion, has also been assembling a family compound in Palo Alto one house at a time.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The new leadership team that Skydance is assembling under the direction of Ellison and Ynon Kreiz, just recruited from Mattel to serve as co-CEO, has to navigate that dynamic.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • Others said the approach OpenAI and other AI companies have taken to solving mathematical problems constitutes an assault on mathematics as a human academic discipline.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The cable outlet has picked up a second season of the show, which stars Tracy Spiridakos (Chicago PD) as a crime-solving national park ranger.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of solving
Verb
  • But oil revenue has been particularly constrained by theft and pipeline vandalism that has cost the country about $300 billion in recent years, compounding in a worsening security crisis that has hampered the overall economy.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Besides the deaths of a dozen people from the compounding pharmacy in New England, some groups have raised broader safety concerns about drugs from compounding pharmacies.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of compounding
Verb
  • Earlier this year, César Alvarez spent far too much of their play The Potluck having their onstage avatar wiggle around on the hook of writing The Potluck.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • GPTZero’s authenticity suite, including AI and hallucination detection, plagiarism checking, and writing replay, has been added to Superhuman’s platform.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of writing
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