interstice
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Dark in truck except for crack of light and fresh air coming through small interstice between back doors.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013
Alejandra therefore sits at the exact interstice of prohibition and possibility.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013
A minute space or interstice in a tissue.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
Xavier," resumed Loyola, "plant your candle in some interstice of that boulder.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
The mortar between the stones is very old, and in every interstice cling in bunches the bee-haunted bluebells.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
Over the decades, scandal-ridden corporations have hidden fraudulent behavior in the interstices between mandated disclosures—think Enron, WorldCom and Tyco, among others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Today cornfields stretch to the horizon, but crowded into their interstices are fragments of the prairie that once covered this part of the state.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 13, 2023
The guitar poked into interstices with pings or echoey chords or scratchy syncopation or dissonant counterpoint.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
This seems right: The gaps in his surreal fables are the dark interstices in which new sympathies may fester.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2020
And one pleasant summer afternoon, deep in the interstices of one of his interminable lectures, he was visited by a revelation that was to alter radically the future of astronomy.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Ender's Game
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