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intertwine

[in-ter-twahyn] / ˌɪn tərˈtwaɪn /


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The two elections again intertwine around the global economy.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Mr. Hofstadter likes to intertwine a couple’s names as a wedding gift, for example, so that “Rachel” rotates into “Winston.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Art and domestic life intertwine with each other, inform each other and perhaps support each other more than is at first apparent, leading to an ending that provides a satisfying union of the two realms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

From the description of skin as “blue black” to the blues as a musical genre, the color blue and its many shades intertwine with African American heredity, history and heritage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2024

The stems twist and intertwine, the branches cluster with red berries, purple flowers.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Chapter by chapter, the author intertwines the sagas of both sets of grandparents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

The deal further intertwines Musk's sprawling business empire, which already includes carmaker Tesla and social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

The bold, unconventional “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” intertwines jazz with decolonization in its telling of newfound, fragile Congolese independence during the Cold War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025

"But now there's a very direct lineage between local teams, larger structures like the NFL Academy, leagues and how it all intertwines."

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024

The mother in clothing this germ of life commingles, intertwines, and insinuates her own spirit, at the same time educating, instructing, and determining its development according to the influence she imparts to it.

From Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Henry Newell Guernsey

More than $400 million had been spent on the three intertwined ballot measures, with more than 90% spent opposing the billionaire tax, according to fundraising disclosures filed with the secretary of state’s office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

“Jensen Huang has become enormously influential in shaping U.S. chip policy, and Nvidia’s commercial interests are intertwined with Washington’s China strategy in complex and sometimes conflicting ways,” Lee said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

The discovery suggests that persistent back pain may become deeply intertwined with a person's sense of self, potentially helping explain why conventional pain treatments often provide limited relief.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

For these elections are not just proximate, they are intertwined.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

His hands in his lap, his fingers intertwined, he cocked his head to the right for a moment and studied Hatsue Miyamoto.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

"What it does portend, to me, is that Hong Kong will accelerate its economic intertwining with Beijing."

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

It’s also a touching nod to the past, gracefully intertwining aspects of “Metropolitan” and “Dead Poets Society.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The deal would signal a deeper "intertwining" of the government and private businesses in the US, following a trend seen elsewhere in places like China, Mr Nicholson told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025

In Mussolini’s Italy, intellectuals were coerced into swearing loyalty to the fascist state, and scholarship became a tool of nationalist propaganda, intertwining classical myths with imperial ambition.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025

I had seen pictures of the Azadi Tower, and it was stunning—gleaming white angles intertwining into a tall edifice, with intricate latticework that made me think of The Lord of the Rings.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram


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