intertwine
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There is no confession and no announcement; Joyce simply comes to realise, as the secrets accumulate and the women's lives intertwine, that her idea of a monogamous marriage has been a sham all along.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Romance, on the other hand, implies a unique feeling two people share, a spark that can be nurtured together as their lives intertwine.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
Mr. Hofstadter likes to intertwine a couple’s names as a wedding gift, for example, so that “Rachel” rotates into “Winston.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The journeys of Aiz, Sirsha and Quil — an orphan, an outcast and a prince — intertwine as they confront evil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
The stems twist and intertwine, the branches cluster with red berries, purple flowers.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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The deal further intertwines Musk's sprawling business empire, which already includes carmaker Tesla and social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
Mr. Brewer intertwines the movie’s two registers brilliantly in an opening scene in which Mr. Jackman does a brief musical performance that doubles as the monologue he delivers to his 12-step group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
The bold, unconventional “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” intertwines jazz with decolonization in its telling of newfound, fragile Congolese independence during the Cold War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
"But now there's a very direct lineage between local teams, larger structures like the NFL Academy, leagues and how it all intertwines."
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024
Each of the first two pairs intertwines with the other: the last, Mort Artus, completes them all, and thus its title was not improperly used in later times to designate the whole Legend.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
Inevitably this discussion may become intertwined with the question of replacing the council tax.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Soon the two couples are intertwined, each looking to find some common ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Pointing out that everything is "intertwined", Gaye is now less able to buy fish from mongers like Darboe-Manneh.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The allure of her physicality and personality seemed intertwined: She was often shown laughing or making others laugh, dressed stylishly, and was known to tap-dance spontaneously in elevators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Its extremities were soggy wooden beams intertwined with metal shackles, the iron restraints lining its limbs like veins.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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"What it does portend, to me, is that Hong Kong will accelerate its economic intertwining with Beijing."
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
It’s also a touching nod to the past, gracefully intertwining aspects of “Metropolitan” and “Dead Poets Society.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The deal would signal a deeper "intertwining" of the government and private businesses in the US, following a trend seen elsewhere in places like China, Mr Nicholson told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025
In Mussolini’s Italy, intellectuals were coerced into swearing loyalty to the fascist state, and scholarship became a tool of nationalist propaganda, intertwining classical myths with imperial ambition.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025
David sat next to me and took my hand, intertwining his fingers with mine.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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