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conjoin

[kuhn-join] / kənˈdʒɔɪn /


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What the viewers of Titian’s time would have known is that the painting depicts the mythical moment in which the Phoenician and Cretan civilizations began to conjoin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

It’s only in their periods of truce, when their differing ambitions conjoin, that things move forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

The landscape’s clarity sliced through my memories of over-built New Jersey, slicing down to the mental bedrock beneath — a primary place of understanding where memory and concept conjoin.

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

As this was our first trip to Greece, we sought the benefit of guides to help separate myths from reality, or maybe conjoin them.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2021

His fascination is that of art and intellect: his material and the mastery wherewith he handles it conjoin to make his particular brand of magic.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton

Phosphate conjoins with sugar to form the backbone of DNA, holding in meaningful order the letters of genetic information that would otherwise collapse into alphabet soup.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

The name conjoins the daring mission of the Perseverance rover with the legacy of a luminous writer of intellectually daring novels.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2021

Flynn, with the aid of set designer Milagros Ponce de León and costume designer Wade Laboissonniere, activates the joyfully imaginative intersection of “Into the Woods” where fanciful conjoins with baser human impulses — even cruelty.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2019

Parabiosis conjoins an entire organ system, whereas plasma infusion is just one element, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2019

From this, again, it is evident that love conjoins itself to the understanding, and not the reverse, and that the reciprocal conjunction is also from love.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager

And as Campell and Doshi argue, the interests of America and its long-standing allies are more conjoined today than they have been in decades.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

The hotel, a short walk from world-renowned museums, is formed of conjoined Victorian townhouses with British and Irish flags displayed out front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

They married in 1954, but it wasn’t until 1963 that the conjoined career of Stiller and Maera took off, with an appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

A parasitic twin is an underdeveloped conjoined twin that relies entirely on the host twin for survival.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025

As once a double shadow had leapt up against a mountainside, now a similarly conjoined shadow moved across the back porch of the house on Hurlbut.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

In our car, an avionics-like black panel stretches across the dash, conjoining the driver’s info and touch-screen interface.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

“They will disperse and form conjoining territories next to their mothers, and so if the animal is not able to disperse further, that can easily cause issues with inbreeding,” Bräutigam said.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2024

Bubbles combine the geometry of perfect spheres with the chaotic behaviors of floating, bursting, conjoining and pressing up against one another.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

The kingdom of Kanem-Bornu was less a kingdom than the conjoining of two city- states, Kanem and Bornu.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

When anything was done, he felt as if he were doing it—perception and origination conjoining in one consciousness.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald


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