interlace
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A 14th-century Hebrew Bible shimmers with Islamic interlace patterns.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
The totems interlace fabric, twine and what sometimes appear to be animal or human organs.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022
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 step off to the side, standing in cave-darkness next to Jane, whose fingers interlace with mine.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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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
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
The show’s creator, Terence Nance, interlaces the pieces within and across episodes, so that ideas bubble up and themes ooze into view with a jubilance of expression, even as he explores fear and grief.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2018
She interlaces fact, fiction and her own family’s ancestral tales to fashion a story about free African Americans living dangerously near the world of slavery, just before the Civil War.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2015
Mrs. Gruver sits down and interlaces her hands.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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
Participants, now paired up, gripped hands with their partners, fingers interlaced, gazing into one another’s eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
But Ms Hidalgo said she wanted to keep the interlaced rings of blue, yellow, black, green and red, symbolising the five continents.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024
I picture my hand stroking Teddy’s hair, grasping a bow poised above my cello, interlaced with Adam’s.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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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
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
He reached up and took her hand in his, the interlacing of their fingers so right, so overdue.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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