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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

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

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




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