interlock

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Also like MBS and CDS, new financial assets have begun to interlock in odd, hard-to-understand ways with traditional financial products.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

I’m interested in the scripts on the field and off, and the plotlines that interlock.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2024

The floor in your home resists racking back and forth because the sheets of 3/4-inch sub flooring interlock and are all nailed to the floor joists.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2023

“A left-handed Spectre cannot interlock with its right-handed mirror image,” said Dr. Kaplan.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

But the way she helped me—as no human, really, could have helped me—by breaking down the interspecies interlock and letting her mind come into my thinking...There was such care, such love.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen