interlace
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Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
Plaid, checked and polka-dotted textiles sewn into zigzagging, overlapped “Reconstructions” shook up the usual interlace produced by a conventional textile loom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
The minor march and its major antidote stare at each other across section breaks, socially distanced, unable to interlace.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 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
Trying to interlace, like a clutched desperate prayer, but again, I feel like the hands I am lacing are not my own, like I have borrowed them from a twelve-fingered monster.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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The record, which interlaces experimental production with Afro-Colombian musical roots, references in its name the 2015 Miss Universe pageant debacle, when Steve Harvey erroneously declared Miss Colombia the winner instead of Miss Philippines.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022
The violin spins, the orchestra interlaces musical threads and occasionally looms over the soloist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 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
They disbanded after eight years in what she describes as “fraught” circumstances, and the sense that her band members never took her seriously still interlaces her conversation.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2019
And her palm brushes the inside of your wrist as she interlaces her fingers with yours to pull you to the door.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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He shares an unusually compelling musical rapport with his associates, especially through impressive unison lines and thoughtfully interlaced phrases with Mr. Light on “Kevin Sun I.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"Dao" depicts two interlaced events: a wedding near Paris and a funeral ceremony in Guinea-Bissau.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
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
As the star shows began, our fingers interlaced in the dark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
He tapped his thumbs together over his interlaced fingers, unable to think of anything else to ask this stubborn child.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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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
Besides interlacing environmental, scientific and social themes that whirl through zealotry and nihilism, it’s also a first-contact scenario that forces a reckoning.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 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
I clutch at the sheets, my fingers interlacing with the fabric.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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