interlock
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Put your other hand on top of the first and interlock your fingers.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
By designing particles that interlock in a similar way to staples, they hope to create materials that are strong, adaptable, and potentially recyclable.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
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
Oh, did I say that many of these boxes are designed to interlock one on top of another as a system?
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
The rovers are macie to interlock so one can tow the other.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Park’s directorial vernacular, which pairs brutal subject matter with black comedy, interlocks neatly with Nguyen’s satirical style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
The subfloor needs to be in the same plane so the LVP interlocks and stays locked when you walk on it.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
Japanese Brazilian Yutaka Toyota interlocks arcs of shiny metal whose curved surfaces serve as sorts of funhouse mirrors.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022
The pizza will also be served in a round pizza box, which is industrially compostable and interlocks with other boxes for stability.
From The Verge ● Oct. 22, 2019
There are four different safety interlocks that prevent the regulator from letting the Hab's oxygen content get too low.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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"Ube really is, I would say, very interlocked with the Filipino identity," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The picture fuses interlocked storylines and blunt social commentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
That thread is exquisitely interlocked with a sensitive, sharp portrait of the interiority of someone searching for agency while in the throes of dementia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
There were no fixed guards preventing access to the blades from the underside and there were not any interlocked guards which would stop the rotating blades.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
There was a short black girl, her hair in tight braids, her hand interlocked in someone else’s.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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She now presides over three interlocking sagas, which fans call the "Maasiverse": "Throne of Glass," "Crescent City" and "ACOTAR," which together account for the sales of more than 75 million books worldwide in 40 languages.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Now, interlocking threats are squeezing the oil market at a time of the year when U.S. fuel prices tend to fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Those patterns, according to the model, would help neighboring DNA molecules align with one another much like two interlocking spiral staircases.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Also on Heritage Crafts' red list is dry stone walling - an ancient method of building structures from interlocking stones without using any mortar.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
It was so beautiful, my heart leaped—metal wings constructed from thousands of interlocking bronze feathers.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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