interpenetration
Example Sentences
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The work draws on Yoruba ideas of cyclical time and the interpenetration of the living, the dead and the not-yet-born.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022
The blocks’ zone of interpenetration lies beneath the Cascade Range, where intense pressures produce volcanic peaks like St. Helens, Baker and Rainier.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022
Chopin prefers more esoteric, difficult-to-detect techniques of elision and interpenetration — a world of transference, where beginnings and endings merge.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2017
We could be talking about the interpenetration of jazz and soul music, and George would mention that the bassist Milt Hinton played on “Mr. Lee,” a late-fifties hit by the Bobbettes.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2014
The interpenetration of the spiritual with the material environment leaves this ponderable planet unable to check or to hamper spiritual presence or operation.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
