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interlace

[in-ter-lays, in-ter-lays] / ˌɪn tərˈleɪs, ˈɪn tərˌleɪs /


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That vertical and horizontal interlace — a grid — had been a fundamental structure for Modern abstraction, which was being entirely rethought after the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

I reach for Michael's hand and interlace our fingers.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2022

The totems interlace fabric, twine and what sometimes appear to be animal or human organs.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022

On their way out of a spider’s bottom, the protein building blocks in silk, called spidroins, fold themselves and interlace, creating a highly organized structure without guidance from any outside force.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2020

I step off to the side, standing in cave-darkness next to Jane, whose fingers interlace with mine.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

“Eat Your Mind” effectively interlaces Acker’s books with the events in her life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

Moss interlaces episodes from the past with a present timeline in which she is suffering from a mysterious and bloody medical condition whose eventual diagnosis necessitates a hysterectomy, followed by a complicated recovery.

From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021

They disbanded after eight years in what she describes as “fraught” circumstances, and the sense that her band members never took her seriously still interlaces her conversation.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2019

The show’s creator, Terence Nance, interlaces the pieces within and across episodes, so that ideas bubble up and themes ooze into view with a jubilance of expression, even as he explores fear and grief.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2018

Mrs. Gruver sits down and interlaces her hands.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

"Dao" depicts two interlaced events: a wedding near Paris and a funeral ceremony in Guinea-Bissau.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

Gathering bits and pieces as rendered in English, the songs are remarkably conversational and down to earth, with humor and fragments of pop culture interlaced with poetic musings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

Hence, his first solo offering, “McCartney,” was mostly tentative, half-baked notions for songs, interlaced with a few fully realized compositions like “Maybe I’m Amazed,” all recorded by McCartney in his home studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

But Ms Hidalgo said she wanted to keep the interlaced rings of blue, yellow, black, green and red, symbolising the five continents.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024

The strange and indescribable pleasure, interlaced with the pain.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

An interlacing of memoir and anecdote, it begins with the author as a young boy, growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., left agog by the Bronx Zoo’s immersive Amazon exhibit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Piker began surreptitiously interlacing those uploads with the rest of the company’s Facebook library.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025

At least in the context she was talking about, outside of old disposable camera photographs, I had no clue who these people really were, despite their lives’ obvious interlacing with my own.

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

This “big melt” could wreak havoc on the towns and farms that line the rivers and irrigation channels interlacing the Central Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

At the top, as high as Gandalf could reach, was an arch of interlacing letters in an Elvish character.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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