interlock

Maerl beds may closely resemble corals but they are in fact thousands of pieces of free-living calcified seaweed that can interlock to create a carpet brimming with life.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

By designing particles that interlock in a similar way to staples, they hope to create materials that are strong, adaptable, and potentially recyclable.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

Also like MBS and CDS, new financial assets have begun to interlock in odd, hard-to-understand ways with traditional financial products.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

Once she is allowed to return behind the wheel, she will be placed under five years of supervised probation with an ignition interlock device, with the potential of three years of unsupervised probation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

These two debates, about thinking and knowing, interlock because both generations have downplayed the idea that the new science was grounded in a new type of engagement with sensory reality.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Park’s directorial vernacular, which pairs brutal subject matter with black comedy, interlocks neatly with Nguyen’s satirical style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

The subfloor needs to be in the same plane so the LVP interlocks and stays locked when you walk on it.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

The pizza will also be served in a round pizza box, which is industrially compostable and interlocks with other boxes for stability.

From The Verge ● Oct. 22, 2019

Ignition interlocks for first-time offenders is a step out of the legislative dark ages for the commonwealth’s DUI laws.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2017

She interlocks her hand with mine as we enter the treatment salon.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The picture fuses interlocked storylines and blunt social commentary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

There were no fixed guards preventing access to the blades from the underside and there were not any interlocked guards which would stop the rotating blades.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024

Before police cleared the area around Hamilton Hall on April 30, 30 or so students interlocked arms outside the building in a human barricade to protect the protesters inside.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2024

The discovery, published today in the journal Nature, uses a novel technique using a type of interlocked molecule known as rotaxane.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

The different mathematical sciences were interlocked: anyone with the skills to excel in one had the skills to excel in others.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Also on Heritage Crafts' red list is dry stone walling - an ancient method of building structures from interlocking stones without using any mortar.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

In the worm's jaws, sharper changes in strain across tiny regions appear to increase the interlocking of defects within the atomic structure, producing the characteristic size effect.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

He approaches policy as a series of interlocking systems, each with its own feedback loops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The monogram is not something that instantly screams “Los Angeles,” though the iconic Dodgers logo — interlocking white letters on a blue hat — is one of the most memorable monograms in the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

The wooden ceiling was decorated with carved interlocking flowers and vines.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi