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intertwine

[in-ter-twahyn] / ˌɪn tərˈtwaɪn /


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There is no confession and no announcement; Joyce simply comes to realise, as the secrets accumulate and the women's lives intertwine, that her idea of a monogamous marriage has been a sham all along.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

But navigating the ins and outs of stories that intertwine without overstepping has required nimbleness.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2026

Mr. Hofstadter likes to intertwine a couple’s names as a wedding gift, for example, so that “Rachel” rotates into “Winston.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

Can you talk a bit about how your professional life and cooking intertwine?

From Salon Sep. 25, 2024

The minty smell of his soap, the warmth of his arms, how when our fingers intertwine, the brown of my skin and the brown of his are nearly a perfect match.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Chapter by chapter, the author intertwines the sagas of both sets of grandparents.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 7, 2026

The deal further intertwines Musk's sprawling business empire, which already includes carmaker Tesla and social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

From Barron's Feb. 2, 2026

"But now there's a very direct lineage between local teams, larger structures like the NFL Academy, leagues and how it all intertwines."

From BBC Dec. 28, 2024

Sundays should be reserved for giving praise, says the pastor’s wife, Karen Anderson Hardaway, whose voice intertwines with her husband’s in the call and response of worship.

From Seattle Times Oct. 31, 2023

In both we miss the great dramatist who looks upon life with a roving eye and intertwines his tale of private woe with the larger tangle of human destiny.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

A hefty Moche nose ornament of gold and silver would have been quite the weight to carry from one’s septum, especially with the intricately intertwined creatures that wrap around its edge.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Owens saw clearly, Spencer said, how culture and politics were intertwined.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

They played together for seven years at club level and shared the pitch 262 times for club and country, and their careers have remained closely intertwined since.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Olsen: Do you find, especially in the way that your personal and professional lives are intertwined, is it good that you have each other to keep yourselves in check?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

The hydrogens were part of the hydrogen bonds that held together the three intertwined chains.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

It’s also a touching nod to the past, gracefully intertwining aspects of “Metropolitan” and “Dead Poets Society.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

The deal would signal a deeper "intertwining" of the government and private businesses in the US, following a trend seen elsewhere in places like China, Mr Nicholson told the BBC.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2025

It felt like mine, this intertwining of fennel and gruyere, two magnificent ingredients, becoming something even better than the sum of the parts.

From Salon Mar. 23, 2025

This tour de force contains an hour’s worth of haunting, intertwining phrases that feel like a combination of Requiem and Kaddish.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2024

Conceivably two expanding civilizations with different planetary requirements would ignore each other, their filigree patterns of expansion intertwining, but not conflicting.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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