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
  • Comcast also recognized value in theme parks and invested heavily, building Universal Studios as a formidable rival to Disney.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • As aides at the Capitol were actively building a stage for the celebratory event, meant to communicate a big cost-of-living win to voters, the president abruptly canceled it.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Definition of building
Verb
  • For most of us, wedding-gift etiquette is figuring out whether the newlyweds already have a blender.
    — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
  • The effective use, figuring out the right prompting strategy is extremely important for people to understand.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Definition of figuring out
Verb
  • The project included replacing sections of the penstock, installing new vent piping and constructing a new concrete thrust block.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2026
  • Success will depend less on constructing facilities than on securing long-term buyers, trusted regulators, technology transfer, and patient capital that can sustain long-term production.
    — Paul Adepoju, semafor.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of constructing
Verb
  • Sorrell prepared for the opportunity by working out with Parsons this offseason in Dallas for roughly six weeks.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Her feed is stuffed with photos of her biking, skiing, climbing, working out, often in outfits from Skinfit, from which her followers can get ten per cent off.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of working out
Verb
  • Erika Bahr, founder and CEO of Daxe, had spent over a year assembling this coalition, intentionally collapsing the walls between every stakeholder in women’s economic participation into a single room.
    — Lisa Curtis, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • This unique telescope is using the world’s largest digital camera to scan the entire southern sky every few nights, assembling what will become the most lavishly detailed time-lapse of the cosmos humanity has ever envisioned.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • So solving the trade talent gap means producing more journeymen.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Nature, however, has been solving this problem for millions of years.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 July 2026
Definition of solving
Verb
  • Once that tax is paid, those dollars are no longer compounding for you.
    — Joshua Harmon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • In April, Kennedy reclassified 12 peptides as Category 1 substances, the first step toward adding them to a list of substances that compounding pharmacies can make.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 30 June 2026
Definition of compounding
Verb
  • Hart went into writing the ballad with that information, but the rest was up to him.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Hello, this is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Definition of writing
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