interlace

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

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

Compositionally, they’re action-packed interlaces of figures and words: lyrics, rap group names, magical numbers, and place names spelled in Arabic, Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish and Twi.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

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

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

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

"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

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

As the star shows began, our fingers interlaced in the dark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

He interlaced his fingers and leaned back in his chair.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

Winnie had been no more than two slow minutes walking timidly under the interlacing branches when she wondered why she had never come here before.

From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit