interpenetration

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The work draws on Yoruba ideas of cyclical time and the interpenetration of the living, the dead and the not-yet-born.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

The blocks’ zone of interpenetration lies beneath the Cascade Range, where intense pressures produce volcanic peaks like St. Helens, Baker and Rainier.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022

Chopin prefers more esoteric, difficult-to-detect techniques of elision and interpenetration — a world of transference, where beginnings and endings merge.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2017

Though, to be more specific, the fear that “Terminator Genisys” reflects is that of centralization, corporate control, and an unwarranted interpenetration of business and government.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 1, 2015

To tell at all adequately why the pang was fine would nevertheless too closely involve my going back, as we have learned to say, on the whole rich interpenetration.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry