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piece together

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piece something together
to fit something together; to assemble the pieces of something, such as a puzzle or something puzzling, and make sense of it. The police were unable to piece the story together. The detective tried to piece together the events leading up to the crime.
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piece together something also piece something together
1. to combine many small details to give a complete description of something In this account, Rawson tries to piece together the events leading up to the tragedy. I hadn't told anyone about it, though I suppose someone could have pieced it together.
2. to combine small things to make something bigger Peters pieced together night courses for five years to earn a college degree. We had to piece the money together to pay off our debts.
Etymology: from the idea of combining the parts of something to make a whole
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She knows that people who piece together the beautiful trifles die early, because the labor is so confining, and so exhausting to hand and brain, and so she has decreed that all these people who reach the age of sixty shall have a pension after that
Then it was that I got the clew of time, and was able to piece together events and actions in their proper order.
Rosa puts her hands to her temples, and, pushing back her hair, looks wildly and abhorrently at him, as though she were trying to piece together what it is his deep purpose to present to her only in fragments.
 
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