piece together
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On Sundays, Fumo often prepares a big portion of ground beef or chicken, using it to piece together dinner throughout the week, with rice or potatoes and a vegetable side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Investigators spent the morning trying to piece together the incident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Other times, they will piece together information from different people to create a “synthetic identity,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
In the past, scammers would have manually combed through social-media profiles and other online data to piece together details about potential targets and obtain contact information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The odd strained shapes that I had tried to piece together with my fumbling fingers and they had never fitted.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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