conjoin
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What the viewers of Titian’s time would have known is that the painting depicts the mythical moment in which the Phoenician and Cretan civilizations began to conjoin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
It’s only in their periods of truce, when their differing ambitions conjoin, that things move forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
Eventually Brooks, now in the same skirt, makes their way to him and they conjoin for an extended spine duet.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
The landscape’s clarity sliced through my memories of over-built New Jersey, slicing down to the mental bedrock beneath — a primary place of understanding where memory and concept conjoin.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
The flesh does not conjoin, but dissever; although through its very severance it suggests a shadow of the union which it cannot bestow.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
His work repeatedly conjoins ancient history with enduring pop style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
The name conjoins the daring mission of the Perseverance rover with the legacy of a luminous writer of intellectually daring novels.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2021
Flynn, with the aid of set designer Milagros Ponce de León and costume designer Wade Laboissonniere, activates the joyfully imaginative intersection of “Into the Woods” where fanciful conjoins with baser human impulses — even cruelty.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2019
It conjoins elements, weaves meaning, deduces the shape of the thing.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2018
The will of the wife conjoins itself with the understanding of the man, and thence the understanding of the man with the will of the wife, 159.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
They added: "We witness first-hand the medical challenges that these children and their families endure, which makes the portrayal of conjoined twins as a form of entertainment or spectacle especially problematic."
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
The conjoined entrance into the NBA of Bird and Magic in 1979 went a long way toward saving a league in free fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
Her critiques of Israel have been conjoined with some eyebrow-raising comments about the Holocaust.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025
They married in 1954, but it wasn’t until 1963 that the conjoined career of Stiller and Maera took off, with an appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
The bus was a double-length one, two buses fused together like conjoined twins by an accordion-pleated rubber seam.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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In our car, an avionics-like black panel stretches across the dash, conjoining the driver’s info and touch-screen interface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
“They will disperse and form conjoining territories next to their mothers, and so if the animal is not able to disperse further, that can easily cause issues with inbreeding,” Bräutigam said.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2024
Bubbles combine the geometry of perfect spheres with the chaotic behaviors of floating, bursting, conjoining and pressing up against one another.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
The kingdom of Kanem-Bornu was less a kingdom than the conjoining of two city- states, Kanem and Bornu.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
“Marshalling is a conjoining of diverse Coats in one Shield.”
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting