interpenetration

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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

But this interpenetration is going on also in younger troupes, companies where you’d expect the founding choreographer to be jealous of his stage time.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019

A philosopher — Jacques Derrida, say, here seen crossing Houston Street a few years before his death — might wax eloquent on the dialectical interpenetration of presence and absence.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2016

A more elaborate interpenetration of the historical and the personal comes in Act II.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2011

The work of economic interpenetration carried on under the ægis of such powerful patrons and resourceful coadjutors was greatly facilitated by the German colonies scattered over Russia for generations.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris