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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

"Then, if thou dost acknowledge thyself so pampered, I beg thou wilt conjoin to justice its semblance and forgive thy poor servant the penalty of death."

From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne

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

It conjoins elements, weaves meaning, deduces the shape of the thing.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2018

If "sacrosancta" is a neuter adjective agreeing with "negotia," understood,—and "et" conjoins members of sentences, then the whole clause is obedient to a positive law of Latin verbal arrangement.

From Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Brantz Mayer

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

One profile, claiming to be conjoined twins, has about 400,000 followers, despite only joining Instagram in December 2025.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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

He also claimed that in 2002 he helped bring conjoined newborns from Guatemala to Los Angeles, where they underwent an incredibly complicated, highly publicized surgery.

From Slate ● May 29, 2024

In some species, the members are so tied to each other and interdependent as to seem the loosely conjoined cells of a tissue.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

Not a very prepossessing conjoining medium would inoculation appear to have been, but many a pretty and sentimental love affair sprang up between mutually "pock-fretten" New Englanders.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle




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