interlace

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

I reach for Michael's hand and interlace our fingers.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2022

The totems interlace fabric, twine and what sometimes appear to be animal or human organs.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022

On their way out of a spider’s bottom, the protein building blocks in silk, called spidroins, fold themselves and interlace, creating a highly organized structure without guidance from any outside force.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2020

Trying to interlace, like a clutched desperate prayer, but again, I feel like the hands I am lacing are not my own, like I have borrowed them from a twelve-fingered monster.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

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

Like the concluding scene of a Shakespearean romance, it interlaces a variety of jangling, disparate elements into the semblance of cosmic harmony.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2019

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

He shares an unusually compelling musical rapport with his associates, especially through impressive unison lines and thoughtfully interlaced phrases with Mr. Light on “Kevin Sun I.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Dao" depicts two interlaced events: a wedding near Paris and a funeral ceremony in Guinea-Bissau.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

Hence, his first solo offering, “McCartney,” was mostly tentative, half-baked notions for songs, interlaced with a few fully realized compositions like “Maybe I’m Amazed,” all recorded by McCartney in his home studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

There’s a whole lot more going on than a hearty appreciation of sheep, interlaced, rolling hills and Iron Age forts.

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

Held against the breast, next to the heart, the same interlaced hands were those of a lover who pleadeth for mercy from his beloved.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

Imagine interlacing clips of a baby taking a bath in a sink with “Country Roads.”

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 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

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