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interlace

[in-ter-leys, in-ter-leys] / ˌɪn tərˈleɪs, ˈɪn tərˌleɪs /


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While some propaganda is mendacious, the most effective propaganda will interlace carefully selected verifiable facts with emotional appeals.

From Salon Feb. 23, 2024

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

I slide my steepled fingers, slowly, watching them interlace.

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

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

Rambling as in a Richard Linklater film, they stroll at a lusciously easy speed, as the show’s attention to place interlaces with a search for self.

From The New Yorker Sep. 2, 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

Mrs. Gruver sits down and interlaces her hands.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

"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

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

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

With these he interlaced and wove a wall across the opening of the front of die rock.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

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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