interlock

By designing particles that interlock in a similar way to staples, they hope to create materials that are strong, adaptable, and potentially recyclable.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

Also like MBS and CDS, new financial assets have begun to interlock in odd, hard-to-understand ways with traditional financial products.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

I’m interested in the scripts on the field and off, and the plotlines that interlock.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2024

The ends do meet and interlock in their own way, but the process is messy and imperfect — it feels honest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

These two debates, about thinking and knowing, interlock because both generations have downplayed the idea that the new science was grounded in a new type of engagement with sensory reality.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Park’s directorial vernacular, which pairs brutal subject matter with black comedy, interlocks neatly with Nguyen’s satirical style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

The subfloor needs to be in the same plane so the LVP interlocks and stays locked when you walk on it.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

The pizza will also be served in a round pizza box, which is industrially compostable and interlocks with other boxes for stability.

From The Verge ● Oct. 22, 2019

Highlights include that we have laws requiring seatbelt use, prohibiting texting while driving and using ignition interlocks on people with DUI convictions.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2017

There are four different safety interlocks that prevent the regulator from letting the Hab's oxygen content get too low.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

The school alarm would pierce the air and teachers would instruct us to slide from our chairs, crouch under our desks facing the floor, and place our hands, fingers interlocked, over our necks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

On “September 5,” the jigsaw Benesch found herself interlocked with was the nuts-and-bolts of an earlier era’s broadcast reporting, complete with vintage equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024

There were no fixed guards preventing access to the blades from the underside and there were not any interlocked guards which would stop the rotating blades.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024

Before police cleared the area around Hamilton Hall on April 30, 30 or so students interlocked arms outside the building in a human barricade to protect the protesters inside.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2024

She interlocked her hands and rested her chin on them.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

Astrolabes are metallic disks with multi-layered, interlocking components that were historically used to tell the time, map the stars, the direction of Mecca and the motion of the sky.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

Around 95 million years ago, the Spinosaurus -- a massive beast with a blade-shaped head crest and interlocking teeth -- roamed the African continent.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

The skull also reveals tightly interlocking upper and lower teeth that formed an effective trap for slippery prey.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

She moves quickly from caves to cathedrals and their architecture, including King’s College Chapel, in Cambridge, with its soaring 16th-century ceiling—the world’s largest fan vault, ribbed in interlocking patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

I bit my lip and clasped my hands together, interlocking my fingers, so I couldn’t do anything rash.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer