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conjoin

[kuhn-join] / kənˈdʒɔɪn /


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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

It’s almost as if the mind and body conjoin in a spiritual melding that manifests as a feeling: sensation woven into silken motion.

From New York Times Apr. 5, 2023

But press him a little harder on where he stands in this world on fire, and his ideas about fearlessness, futurism, style and progress all seem to conjoin.

From Washington Post Mar. 9, 2022

Let them conjoin the science of the books of Johnston with the practice of that of Stephens, and they may still hope, as a body, to occupy the foremost rank among the agriculturists of Europe.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

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

Virites Quirini, Moles Martis, and Herie Iunonis; the first two of which plainly mean the strength or force of Quirinus and Mars, and the third conjoins two female names.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

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

A spokesperson for Gemini Untwined, which funds specialist surgery for rare newborns joined by the head, said portraying conjoined twins as entertainment was "morally reprehensible".

From BBC Feb. 26, 2026

Her critiques of Israel have been conjoined with some eyebrow-raising comments about the Holocaust.

From Slate Dec. 22, 2025

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

Everything was conjoined by mystery and fate, and in his darkened cell he meditated on this and it became increasingly clear to him.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

Although the film isn’t necessarily similar to Haynes’ more recent work, it hits on something he admires in other filmmakers, namely Alfred Hitchcock: conjoining the subversive with the popular.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2023

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 most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining east and west, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

From Bahá’í World Faith by `Abdu'l-Bahá




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