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interlace

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


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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

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

Nothing about our friends or our hopes or our lives: all the things I imagined we’d eventually interlace.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2016

I slide my steepled fingers, slowly, watching them interlace.

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

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

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

Mrs. Gruver sits down and interlaces her hands.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

"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

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

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

Luna interlaced her fingers with her grandmother’s and held on desperately.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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

At least in the context she was talking about, outside of old disposable camera photographs, I had no clue who these people really were, despite their lives’ obvious interlacing with my own.

From Salon ● May 27, 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

At the top, as high as Gandalf could reach, was an arch of interlacing letters in an Elvish character.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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