interlock
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Put your other hand on top of the first and interlock your fingers.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
"Let's take sand as an example. Sand is smooth and convex-shaped, meaning it cannot interlock from grain to grain," PhD student Youhan Sohn said.
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
“Mercury,” which is receiving its West Coast premiere, is composed of independent vignettes that eventually interlock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
His hands go behind his back, and his fingers interlock.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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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
Japanese Brazilian Yutaka Toyota interlocks arcs of shiny metal whose curved surfaces serve as sorts of funhouse mirrors.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022
What makes evaluating Apple’s potential overreach so complicated is that every criticism you can levy at the company interlocks.
From The Verge ● Jun. 21, 2019
She interlocks her hand with mine as we enter the treatment salon.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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"Ube really is, I would say, very interlocked with the Filipino identity," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
"Then I interlocked arms with him so I knew he wouldn't go anywhere, I waved to my dad and started heading out."
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
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
The interlocked bushes ranged from ten to twelve feet tall, and they looked really thick.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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“There are now so many phase-outs and phase-ins and interlocking provisions that back-of-the-envelope calculations aren’t reliable,” says Tim Steffen, director of tax planning at Baird.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Those patterns, according to the model, would help neighboring DNA molecules align with one another much like two interlocking spiral staircases.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
"Company" is a complex low-budget gothic drama that features several interlocking stories.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Set in Mexico, the film stars Mexican-born Anthony Quinn as a brilliant but aging matador facing interlocking personal crises, and Maureen O’Hara as the wealthy American who sets her cap for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
She had no crown, but around her waist was a strange belt made of interlocking gold links, like the pattern of a labyrinth.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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