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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

Julee Cruise’s siren vocals intertwine with imperceptible grooves that swell like gentle ocean waves.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 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

As she offers her prayers, the sacred space becomes a moment of spiritual release, where devotion and vulnerability intertwine.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

Funny how all our stories kind of intertwine.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

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

Now to our eyes, made dim with years, Right intertwines with wrong.

From Many Voices by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Pointing out that everything is "intertwined", Gaye is now less able to buy fish from mongers like Darboe-Manneh.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

The solidarity of Sept. 11 and the political choices made in its aftermath were not the same thing, even if they have become intertwined in our memory of the period.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Hollywood’s increasingly skeptical view of tech comes as the two industries have never been more intertwined.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

His life has been intertwined with money, business, politics and privilege — for better or worse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

I look down at our hands intertwined, surprised and a little embarrassed, scared Darrell will see and won’t let me forget it.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

The themes of “Queen Esther” will be familiar to Mr. Irving’s many readers, who will also recognize his habit of intertwining fiction with personal history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

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

She says they survive by extending outward in a shallow layer, intertwining with the roots of the trees around them.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy




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