interlace
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A 14th-century Hebrew Bible shimmers with Islamic interlace patterns.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
The totems interlace fabric, twine and what sometimes appear to be animal or human organs.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022
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
By the time he was 18, the blond, blue-eyed, flat-topped dude could turn a steady, vaulting painted line into a razor-sharp, whiplash interlace that would briskly animate the deadened surface of an otherwise soulless machine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2018
I step off to the side, standing in cave-darkness next to Jane, whose fingers interlace with mine.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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“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
Moss interlaces episodes from the past with a present timeline in which she is suffering from a mysterious and bloody medical condition whose eventual diagnosis necessitates a hysterectomy, followed by a complicated recovery.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
They disbanded after eight years in what she describes as “fraught” circumstances, and the sense that her band members never took her seriously still interlaces her conversation.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2019
Mrs. Gruver sits down and interlaces her hands.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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
The maid stares down at the interlaced hands she holds before her, a gesture that Yolanda remembers seeing illustrated in a book for Renaissance actors.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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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
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
Coldplay is renowned for interlacing its values with its shows, such as the band’s push for environmental sustainability.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
At the top, as high as Gandalf could reach, was an arch of interlacing letters in an Elvish character.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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