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
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
Julee Cruise’s siren vocals intertwine with imperceptible grooves that swell like gentle ocean waves.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2025
Funny how all our stories kind of intertwine.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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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
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
It intertwines with any other great social evil which may be present.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
This exhibition is a triumph, a revelatory love letter to the distinct yet intertwined creative spirits of these two men.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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
For these elections are not just proximate, they are intertwined.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
I simply intertwined my fingers and gazed at him, waiting.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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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
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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