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intertwine

[in-ter-twahyn] / ˌɪn tərˈtwaɪn /


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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

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

The soul of the movie is in watching these ramrod opposites bend and intertwine.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

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

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

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

Mr. Brewer intertwines the movie’s two registers brilliantly in an opening scene in which Mr. Jackman does a brief musical performance that doubles as the monologue he delivers to his 12-step group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

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

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

From Many Voices by E. (Edith) Nesbit

A similar story played out in Michigan, where state's the automobile manufacturing industry is deeply intertwined with Canada's - and where Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed defeated Republican Mike Rogers.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 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

Originally organized by the Toledo Museum of Art, the exhibition treats visitors to a brief glimpse of the way magic was intertwined with daily life in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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

There was also the vexing problem of how the intertwined chains might be held together by hydrogen bonds between the bases.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

"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

It felt like mine, this intertwining of fennel and gruyere, two magnificent ingredients, becoming something even better than the sum of the parts.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025

Conceivably two expanding civilizations with different planetary requirements would ignore each other, their filigree patterns of expansion intertwining, but not conflicting.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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