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Ittai told me how he had pieced together that a senior curator at the museum was stealing, and how he had sent his evidence to the museum's leadership in 2021.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Extraordinarily, one of the carvings depicted a ruler holding up the head of a Maya deity—the exact god represented in the mask Estrada-Belli had pieced together.

From National Geographic • Jan. 26, 2024

Within days, Kenworthy had pieced together an impact-related explanation and began expanding his search through additional historical and ongoing real-time datasets to shore up the hypothesis.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023

By Dec. 27, one lab, Vision Medicals, had pieced together most of the genome of a new coronavirus with striking similarities to SARS.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2020

Between them they had pieced together the fate of his charred note, and the course of confusion which had enabled three disparate animals to disappear without trace, and with perfect timing and perception.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford