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Wiese, who was sworn in as chief two days before the shooting, said police were piecing together information from some 40 witnesses, including many who didn’t speak English, and didn’t want to broadcast incorrect information.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Chin, Chan, Inada, and Wong founded the Combined Asian American Resources Project in order to preserve the literary history that they were piecing together.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 30, 2019

Police recovered a weapon from the scene, said Newsham, who said authorities were piecing together statements from officers and witnesses and reviewing body-camera footage.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2017

We were piecing together a quilt of noise.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2016

And the women were piecing together another quilt, only this time, instead of a victory quilt, it was a friendship quilt, and they asked Miss Sadie to make the center square.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool