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As a verb used when things are blending or being blended together, meld dates only to the first half of the 20th century. In its early days, the word attracted some unfavorable attention. Those who didn't like it tended to perceive it as a misuse of an older meld meaning "to declare or announce (a card or cards) for a score in a card game" (such as pinochle or gin rummy). But the more recent meld, a blend of melt and weld, was an entirely new coinage suggesting a smooth and thorough blending of two or more things into a single, homogeneous whole. The word is no longer controversial.
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Examples of meld in a Sentence
Kirsten Grieshaber, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2024
Making pasta salads ahead can even help the flavors meld and deepen.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 9 May 2024
Google, of course, is not the only company melding AI with cybersecurity.
—Emilia David, The Verge, 6 May 2024
Just like chickpeas, black beans bring a neutral flavor that melds with a whole lot of ingredients and a strong nutritional profile rich in things like fiber and protein.
—Audrey Bruno, SELF, 6 May 2024
Another singer then used a special AI program overlaid with Travis’s voice to create a new recording, which Lehning and Travis then melded together into the new song.
—Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
McCormick cites another film that melds action and romance, the 2005 Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie action comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 May 2024
Taylor Swift fans are waiting to see whether the pop star shows up with boyfriend Travis Kelce at the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday, a glamorous affair that melds high-tech racing with fashion and celebrity gawking.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
Bitter and her musical cohorts on the album, most notably writer-producer Michael Gurley, fashion a superb vintage sound, but smartly meld it with original songs.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2024
Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024
The high-low look was the perfect meld of Italian glamour and low-key American style.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2024
Cuts of pork, beef and chicken meld in a stew with plantains, rounds of corn on the cob, winter squash and yautia, a root vegetable sometimes called malanga.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
Located an hour drive southeast of the city of Toulouse between the walled city of Carcassonne and the Black Mountains—Montagne Noir—local geography here includes a meld of landscapes from two sides of the country—Mediterranean (rocky scrub) and Atlantic (forests and meadows).
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
The extensive menu is a meld of Italian and Japanese, with an extensive–and spectacular–sushi bar.
—Rona Berg, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Crunchy guitars, galloping rhythm and a ferocious production meld on this confessional grit-country track written by Sam Martinez, Graham Barham, Zack Dyer and Jon Robert Hall.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2024
Despite the lack of Twitter, the mind meld is still happening.
—WIRED, 2 Nov. 2023
This meld of theory and practice will position you to adeptly navigate AI’s evolving landscape.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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“Meld.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meld. Accessed 18 May. 2024.
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meld
1 of 2 verbmeld
2 of 2 noun
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