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

One of the toughest challenges was figuring out how the two halves of “Here We Are” interlock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

But the way she helped me—as no human, really, could have helped me—by breaking down the interspecies interlock and letting her mind come into my thinking...There was such care, such love.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

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

He interlocks his fingers as if cracking his knuckles.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022

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

There are four different safety interlocks that prevent the regulator from letting the Hab's oxygen content get too low.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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 new, hard problem will be to cope with the dawning, intensifying realization of just how interlocked we are.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

Set in Mexico, the film stars Mexican-born Anthony Quinn as a brilliant but aging matador facing interlocking personal crises, and Maureen O’Hara as the wealthy American who sets her cap for him.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Both sides are grappling with a set of interlocking issues that stand in the way of a long-term end to the conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

As the ship had gone onto its side, the service panels that had been in place on the floor had come loose and fallen free, revealing the huge gears and interlocking hydraulic systems.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi