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
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
These shades of feeling, and their interpenetration, are conveyed with extraordinary delicacy and care.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2011
Again, there is no strict boundary, but a zone of interpenetration.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy
