intertwine

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

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024

Can you talk a bit about how your professional life and cooking intertwine?

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2024

In this vision of marriage, spouses don’t occupy separate gender-based spheres; they intertwine their lives, each working to strengthen the scaffolding that supports the other.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2024

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

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins