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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

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

As the remaining curlicues of steam intertwine with the snow, visibility extends just to the end of my barrel.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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 New Yorker’s Grann intertwines the racism and injustices of 1920s Oklahoma, corruption of local authorities and the mysterious deaths of several Osage people, mostly women.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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

In both we miss the great dramatist who looks upon life with a roving eye and intertwines his tale of private woe with the larger tangle of human destiny.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

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

It turns out that politics, money and infrastructure are fairly intertwined.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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

A bass guitar’s slow notes intertwined with a saxophone’s glee, creating a jazz-funk, strut-like rhythm, soon joined by trumpets and drums.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Ellison’s subject was America, whose many intertwining strands he saw as forming one great ecosystem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 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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