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
In the interstice is an oval or egg-shaped mound.'
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 by Robert Chambers
Behind the cottage rose the bare mountain-side, covered with loose stones and rocks, among which in every available interstice the diligent peasants had sown corn and barley.
From The Call of the Blood by Orson Lowell
Through an interstice she was able to see all the persons seated at the other table.
From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Frank X. Leyendecker
Price herself was well aware of racial interstices.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
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
Given how much executive authority lies tucked away in the interstices of federal law, just waiting to be exploited, it’s remarkable that presidents have not abused it more blatantly.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022
From this stuck place, though, Specktor determines to map out a territory between success and failure — the interstices where most of us live, though rarely are they spoken of in all-or-nothing Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
And one pleasant summer afternoon, deep in the interstices of one of his interminable lectures, he was visited by a revelation that was to alter radically the future of astronomy.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Ender's Game
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