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interlace

[in-ter-lays, in-ter-lays] / ˌɪn tərˈleɪs, ˈɪn tərˌleɪs /


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The trick, said Pennes, is to grow vegetables and fruits in separate raised beds and then interlace the remaining ground with native plants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

A 14th-century Hebrew Bible shimmers with Islamic interlace patterns.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 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

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

“Eat Your Mind” effectively interlaces Acker’s books with the events in her life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 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

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

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

Hence, his first solo offering, “McCartney,” was mostly tentative, half-baked notions for songs, interlaced with a few fully realized compositions like “Maybe I’m Amazed,” all recorded by McCartney in his home studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

The Phryges are red, white and blue to reflect France’s tri-colored flag and wear the gold Paris 2024 logo — including the Olympic symbol of five interlaced rings — on their chests.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2024

“Viento!” she said, moving her hands across the air like she was weaving an intricate design and manipulating the wind so it interlaced and made...a cage of thorns.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

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

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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