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
Once she is allowed to return behind the wheel, she will be placed under five years of supervised probation with an ignition interlock device, with the potential of three years of unsupervised probation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
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
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
Ignition interlocks for first-time offenders is a step out of the legislative dark ages for the commonwealth’s DUI laws.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2017
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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 picture fuses interlocked storylines and blunt social commentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
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
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
When Wes arrived in his room, he found Levy lying back on the bed, his feet crossed and hands behind his head with his fingers interlocked.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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Now, interlocking threats are squeezing the oil market at a time of the year when U.S. fuel prices tend to fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Company" is a complex low-budget gothic drama that features several interlocking stories.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Also on Heritage Crafts' red list is dry stone walling - an ancient method of building structures from interlocking stones without using any mortar.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
Later, he became enamored of Japanese interlocking puzzles and dimensional wooden puzzles shaped in the form of an automobile or an animal.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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