interlace
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I reach for Michael's hand and interlace our fingers.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2022
On their way out of a spider’s bottom, the protein building blocks in silk, called spidroins, fold themselves and interlace, creating a highly organized structure without guidance from any outside force.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2020
The trio, which date to the 10th and 11th centuries, are adorned with crosses and Celtic interlace patterns similar to the ones seen on the stones inside the church.”
From Fox News ● Apr. 5, 2019
By the time he was 18, the blond, blue-eyed, flat-topped dude could turn a steady, vaulting painted line into a razor-sharp, whiplash interlace that would briskly animate the deadened surface of an otherwise soulless machine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2018
I slide my steepled fingers, slowly, watching them interlace.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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Jason Elliott, Newsom’s top housing advisor, said the governor’s budget interlaces housing, cost-of-living and climate policies to simultaneously address California’s top issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
And yet “A Voyage to Arcturus” is deservedly regarded as titanic, the depiction of a spiritual rite of passage that interlaces death and renewal with a quest for transcendence.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021
Like the concluding scene of a Shakespearean romance, it interlaces a variety of jangling, disparate elements into the semblance of cosmic harmony.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2019
Rambling as in a Richard Linklater film, they stroll at a lusciously easy speed, as the show’s attention to place interlaces with a search for self.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2018
Mrs. Gruver sits down and interlaces her hands.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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"Dao" depicts two interlaced events: a wedding near Paris and a funeral ceremony in Guinea-Bissau.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
Gathering bits and pieces as rendered in English, the songs are remarkably conversational and down to earth, with humor and fragments of pop culture interlaced with poetic musings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Participants, now paired up, gripped hands with their partners, fingers interlaced, gazing into one another’s eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
There’s a whole lot more going on than a hearty appreciation of sheep, interlaced, rolling hills and Iron Age forts.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
I touched the quilt on the bed, traced with my fingers the monogram on the nightdress case, R de W, interwoven and interlaced.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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An interlacing of memoir and anecdote, it begins with the author as a young boy, growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., left agog by the Bronx Zoo’s immersive Amazon exhibit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Imagine interlacing clips of a baby taking a bath in a sink with “Country Roads.”
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2025
At least in the context she was talking about, outside of old disposable camera photographs, I had no clue who these people really were, despite their lives’ obvious interlacing with my own.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
Coldplay is renowned for interlacing its values with its shows, such as the band’s push for environmental sustainability.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
At the top, as high as Gandalf could reach, was an arch of interlacing letters in an Elvish character.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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