interpenetration
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The blocks’ zone of interpenetration lies beneath the Cascade Range, where intense pressures produce volcanic peaks like St. Helens, Baker and Rainier.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
Chopin prefers more esoteric, difficult-to-detect techniques of elision and interpenetration — a world of transference, where beginnings and endings merge.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2017
A philosopher — Jacques Derrida, say, here seen crossing Houston Street a few years before his death — might wax eloquent on the dialectical interpenetration of presence and absence.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2016
We could be talking about the interpenetration of jazz and soul music, and George would mention that the bassist Milt Hinton played on “Mr. Lee,” a late-fifties hit by the Bobbettes.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2014
Berlin rightly gauged the worth of this pacific interpenetration at a time when Britons were laughing it to scorn as a ludicrous freak of grandmotherly government.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
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