interlace
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Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
That vertical and horizontal interlace — a grid — had been a fundamental structure for Modern abstraction, which was being entirely rethought after the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
The totems interlace fabric, twine and what sometimes appear to be animal or human organs.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022
The minor march and its major antidote stare at each other across section breaks, socially distanced, unable to interlace.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2020
For the first time, I notice they don’t interlace smoothly.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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Compositionally, they’re action-packed interlaces of figures and words: lyrics, rap group names, magical numbers, and place names spelled in Arabic, Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish and Twi.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
“Eat Your Mind” effectively interlaces Acker’s books with the events in her life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
The record, which interlaces experimental production with Afro-Colombian musical roots, references in its name the 2015 Miss Universe pageant debacle, when Steve Harvey erroneously declared Miss Colombia the winner instead of Miss Philippines.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022
The show’s creator, Terence Nance, interlaces the pieces within and across episodes, so that ideas bubble up and themes ooze into view with a jubilance of expression, even as he explores fear and grief.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2018
And her palm brushes the inside of your wrist as she interlaces her fingers with yours to pull you to the door.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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"Dao" depicts two interlaced events: a wedding near Paris and a funeral ceremony in Guinea-Bissau.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
Gathering bits and pieces as rendered in English, the songs are remarkably conversational and down to earth, with humor and fragments of pop culture interlaced with poetic musings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
The Phryges are red, white and blue to reflect France’s tri-colored flag and wear the gold Paris 2024 logo — including the Olympic symbol of five interlaced rings — on their chests.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2024
After a 34-32 loss to Utah on Saturday at the Coliseum, the Heisman-winning quarterback sat on the bench, interlaced his fingers and covered his eyes as Utah players flooded onto the field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
The throne is interlaced with thin, transparent tubes that thread through it like veins.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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An interlacing of memoir and anecdote, it begins with the author as a young boy, growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., left agog by the Bronx Zoo’s immersive Amazon exhibit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Piker began surreptitiously interlacing those uploads with the rest of the company’s Facebook library.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025
At least in the context she was talking about, outside of old disposable camera photographs, I had no clue who these people really were, despite their lives’ obvious interlacing with my own.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
This “big melt” could wreak havoc on the towns and farms that line the rivers and irrigation channels interlacing the Central Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
Winnie had been no more than two slow minutes walking timidly under the interlacing branches when she wondered why she had never come here before.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
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