interlace
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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
But first, an abbreviated Weaving 101: two sets of threads or yarns interlace at right angles to produce fabric.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2021
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
The trio, which date to the 10th and 11th centuries, are adorned with crosses and Celtic interlace patterns similar to the ones seen on the stones inside the church.”
From Fox News ● Apr. 5, 2019
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
Jason Elliott, Newsom’s top housing advisor, said the governor’s budget interlaces housing, cost-of-living and climate policies to simultaneously address California’s top issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 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
She interlaces fact, fiction and her own family’s ancestral tales to fashion a story about free African Americans living dangerously near the world of slavery, just before the Civil War.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2015
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
Participants, now paired up, gripped hands with their partners, fingers interlaced, gazing into one another’s eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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
It's almost like he's enjoying the design of me, the same way he appreciates the interlaced ballerinas.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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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
Besides interlacing environmental, scientific and social themes that whirl through zealotry and nihilism, it’s also a first-contact scenario that forces a reckoning.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 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
Then they rode toward each other, with one line crossing the other, like the fingers of two hands interlacing.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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