intertwine
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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
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
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
Julee Cruise’s siren vocals intertwine with imperceptible grooves that swell like gentle ocean waves.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2025
For Wagner, nothing was allowed to distract from the unfolding musical story and he would happily intertwine chorus, solo, duets, instrumental interludes so that you could hardly tell when one ended and another began.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
On songs like “Slushy” and “Predictable Girl,” she intertwines a menagerie of robotic, spacey sirens with tinges of Jersey club beats and ’90s-influenced R&B chords.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 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
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
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
While geographic proximity ensures the two countries will remain intertwined, the deeply integrated economic relationship of recent decades may be coming to an end.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
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"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
Then he recombed it and rebraided the queue, intertwining the red ribbon through the braids.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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