interlock

Maerl beds may closely resemble corals but they are in fact thousands of pieces of free-living calcified seaweed that can interlock to create a carpet brimming with life.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Gentle vibrations encouraged the particles to interlock and strengthen the material, while stronger vibrations caused the network to unravel.

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

One of the toughest challenges was figuring out how the two halves of “Here We Are” interlock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

We had—or rather Gretchen had—found a way to break down the communication barrier and interlock with another species.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

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

What makes evaluating Apple’s potential overreach so complicated is that every criticism you can levy at the company interlocks.

From The Verge ● Jun. 21, 2019

Ignition interlocks for first-time offenders is a step out of the legislative dark ages for the commonwealth’s DUI laws.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2017

She interlocks her hand with mine as we enter the treatment salon.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The school alarm would pierce the air and teachers would instruct us to slide from our chairs, crouch under our desks facing the floor, and place our hands, fingers interlocked, over our necks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

"Then I interlocked arms with him so I knew he wouldn't go anywhere, I waved to my dad and started heading out."

From BBC ● May 3, 2025

Before police cleared the area around Hamilton Hall on April 30, 30 or so students interlocked arms outside the building in a human barricade to protect the protesters inside.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2024

The discovery, published today in the journal Nature, uses a novel technique using a type of interlocked molecule known as rotaxane.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

When Wes arrived in his room, he found Levy lying back on the bed, his feet crossed and hands behind his head with his fingers interlocked.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

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

In the worm's jaws, sharper changes in strain across tiny regions appear to increase the interlocking of defects within the atomic structure, producing the characteristic size effect.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

Set in Mexico, the film stars Mexican-born Anthony Quinn as a brilliant but aging matador facing interlocking personal crises, and Maureen O’Hara as the wealthy American who sets her cap for him.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

To say that our picture of the Mayan civilization—an interlocking network of kingdoms occupying the Yucatán Peninsula and swaths of present-day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador from roughly 1000 B.C. to A.D.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg