interlock
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Maerl beds may closely resemble corals but they are in fact thousands of pieces of free-living calcified seaweed that can interlock to create a carpet brimming with life.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
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
The rovers are macie to interlock so one can tow the other.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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
In July, the two squeezed next to each other on Baca’s couch at the lawyer’s Long Beach home, hands interlocked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
"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
She interlocked her hands and rested her chin on them.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
"Company" is a complex low-budget gothic drama that features several interlocking stories.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Each forms an interlocking piece in his still-developing musical puzzle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
In the worm's jaws, sharper changes in strain across tiny regions appear to increase the interlocking of defects within the atomic structure, producing the characteristic size effect.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 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
Or are we all bound up together in a grand, interlocking web?
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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