interstice
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Dark in truck except for crack of light and fresh air coming through small interstice between back doors.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013
Alejandra therefore sits at the exact interstice of prohibition and possibility.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013
The mortar between the stones is very old, and in every interstice cling in bunches the bee-haunted bluebells.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
I turn now to the literary work which filled every available interstice of time.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
I showed him that the sliver taken from the slipper fitted exactly the interstice I had indicated.
From The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont by Robert Barr
If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
Today cornfields stretch to the horizon, but crowded into their interstices are fragments of the prairie that once covered this part of the state.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 13, 2023
Given how much executive authority lies tucked away in the interstices of federal law, just waiting to be exploited, it’s remarkable that presidents have not abused it more blatantly.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022
The guitar poked into interstices with pings or echoey chords or scratchy syncopation or dissonant counterpoint.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
Listen to this: “The dynamic interstices of the Harlem sub-culture have been oversimplified and distorted by Malcolm X to meet his own needs.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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Ender's Game
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