interstice
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Dark in truck except for crack of light and fresh air coming through small interstice between back doors.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013
Alejandra therefore sits at the exact interstice of prohibition and possibility.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013
There seemed to be no interstice, no crevice into which he might insert the keen probe of his marvelous deductive power.
From The Crevice by Will Grefé
Moreover the Jâbâlas speak in their text of the highest Lord as being in the interstice between the top of the head and the chin.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
Truly it was her lover; through an interstice of the apple boughs she saw him distinctly, and he saw her—that smile, surely the gloomy old mirror had reflected awry.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
The actors wallow in the interstices of the dialogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
Today cornfields stretch to the horizon, but crowded into their interstices are fragments of the prairie that once covered this part of the state.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 13, 2023
The guitar poked into interstices with pings or echoey chords or scratchy syncopation or dissonant counterpoint.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
This seems right: The gaps in his surreal fables are the dark interstices in which new sympathies may fester.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2020
A very soft place would also appear poorly reflective because of the many interstices between individual sand grains.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Ender's Game
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