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intertwine

[in-ter-twahyn] / ˌɪn tərˈtwaɪn /


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Throughout these tales, the careers of eminent scientific figures intertwine with the lives of ordinary people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

There is no confession and no announcement; Joyce simply comes to realise, as the secrets accumulate and the women's lives intertwine, that her idea of a monogamous marriage has been a sham all along.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The script’s two mysteries — why is Tau Ceti safe and why is Grace not — intertwine in flashbacks that are interesting enough for a while.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

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

We intertwine our fingers and close our eyes against the sun.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

It raises funds to benefit 10 like-minded advocacy groups, and intertwines her music career and women’s rights advocacy in ways few pop artists at her scale are attempting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

U.S. regulators are now taking a closer look at the Wall Street playbook that effectively intertwines private credit with traditional life insurance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 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

"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

Each of the first two pairs intertwines with the other: the last, Mort Artus, completes them all, and thus its title was not improperly used in later times to designate the whole Legend.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

“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

The technique concentrated money meant to pay policyholders in a web of intertwined investments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

After 25 years, our way of looking at art and the art that we’ve shared together is so deeply intertwined that anything I write is unimaginable without her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

I reached for Sohrab’s hand, intertwined my fingers with his.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Elon Musk has spent two decades running Tesla and SpaceX, intertwining their resources and ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 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

David sat next to me and took my hand, intertwining his fingers with mine.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed


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