piece
noun
a separate or limited portion or quantity of something.
have pieced
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present perfectof piece.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Authorities should also examine whether Allen was known to authorities and, if so, whether intelligence operatives could have pieced together his train travel and arrival in the president’s orbit, Shortland said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
We have pieced together the tragic chronology of what happened next.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2024
Given a few months, the thinking goes, the ‘Pac-4’ could have pieced together competition schedules with other leagues that would have satisfied their needs.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2024
Now that researchers have pieced together the complex interplay of genes and hormones that control corn growth, the time may be ripe for corn, too, to go big by getting shorter.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2023
"It is scarcely credible that an ordinary seaman,—even allowing that he was superior in education to the average of his fellows,—could have pieced these facts together so ingeniously into this plausible story."
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
