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
Xavier," resumed Loyola, "plant your candle in some interstice of that boulder.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
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
Falling again, without being hit by the engine, he went tumbling down through an interstice of the iron beams into the muddy water below.
From True and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop
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
Price herself was well aware of racial interstices.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
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 woods were lit with lanterns, and far below in the bay, through the interstices of trees, she could make out the deck lights of moored pleasure boats.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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Ender's Game
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