interlace
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That vertical and horizontal interlace — a grid — had been a fundamental structure for Modern abstraction, which was being entirely rethought after the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
I reach for Michael's hand and interlace our fingers.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2022
The minor march and its major antidote stare at each other across section breaks, socially distanced, unable to interlace.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 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
Trying to interlace, like a clutched desperate prayer, but again, I feel like the hands I am lacing are not my own, like I have borrowed them from a twelve-fingered monster.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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“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
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
Mrs. Gruver sits down and interlaces her hands.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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
Participants, now paired up, gripped hands with their partners, fingers interlaced, gazing into one another’s eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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
The maid stares down at the interlaced hands she holds before her, a gesture that Yolanda remembers seeing illustrated in a book for Renaissance actors.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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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
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
His clumsy arms had come together with a thwack, blunt fingers interlacing.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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