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Re:As Last Module Docks, China Completes Its Space Station by IshKebab on Thursday November 03, 2022 @07:55AM (#33449688)
> I cleaved the halves together

I would say what are you talking about? That makes no grammatical sense.

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Re:As Last Module Docks, China Completes Its Space Station by lovich on Thursday November 03, 2022 @11:30AM (#33452546)
It does? One definition of cleave is to join or adhere things together. It’s not a new slang definition, you can look it up in any dictionary.
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Re:As Last Module Docks, China Completes Its Space Station by IshKebab on Friday November 04, 2022 @04:56AM (#33463666)
I did look it up in a dictionary.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cleave#Etymology_2

> (intransitive, rare) Followed by' to or unto: to adhere, cling, or stick fast to something.

Something can cleave to another thing, but you can't cleave two things together. It's grammatically the same as the word "cling". You can cling to something but you can't cling two things together. It doesn't make sense.

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