conjoin
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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
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
Second, is the NYT's willing to push further into the foundations of what psychological forces, both individual and relational, conjoin to produce this type of abhorrent and ill behavior.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2019
So let the grave and the cheerful conjoin in speech, according to times and seasons, places and circumstances.
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
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
It conjoins elements, weaves meaning, deduces the shape of the thing.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2018
The Lord resides with men, whether evil or good, in these two faculties and conjoins Himself by them to every man.
From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by William F. Wunsch
The conjoined entrance into the NBA of Bird and Magic in 1979 went a long way toward saving a league in free fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
When South Africa ushered in democratic rule with Nelson Mandela elected president, the two were merged and the name conjoined.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 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
I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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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
The kingdom of Kanem-Bornu was less a kingdom than the conjoining of two city- states, Kanem and Bornu.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
And lastly the winter sign was the Water Bearer, the bright Fomalhaut conjoining his rays with the sun's at midwinter.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor