interlace
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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
Nothing about our friends or our hopes or our lives: all the things I imagined we’d eventually interlace.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2016
For the first time, I notice they don’t interlace smoothly.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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The violin spins, the orchestra interlaces musical threads and occasionally looms over the soloist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Moss interlaces episodes from the past with a present timeline in which she is suffering from a mysterious and bloody medical condition whose eventual diagnosis necessitates a hysterectomy, followed by a complicated recovery.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
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
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
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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"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
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
Tally interlaced her fingers, locking her hands together to give David a boost up to where he could wedge the powerjack between the doors.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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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
Piker began surreptitiously interlacing those uploads with the rest of the company’s Facebook library.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 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
Such feelings are what prompted Valdes to try to normalize mental health struggles by interlacing her products with humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
Then they rode toward each other, with one line crossing the other, like the fingers of two hands interlacing.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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