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conjoin

[kuhn-join] / kənˈdʒɔɪn /


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What the viewers of Titian’s time would have known is that the painting depicts the mythical moment in which the Phoenician and Cretan civilizations began to conjoin.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

It’s only in their periods of truce, when their differing ambitions conjoin, that things move forward.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 2025

Eventually Brooks, now in the same skirt, makes their way to him and they conjoin for an extended spine duet.

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2024

The landscape’s clarity sliced through my memories of over-built New Jersey, slicing down to the mental bedrock beneath — a primary place of understanding where memory and concept conjoin.

From Salon May 27, 2024

His fascination is that of art and intellect: his material and the mastery wherewith he handles it conjoin to make his particular brand of magic.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton

His work repeatedly conjoins ancient history with enduring pop style.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2023

Phosphate conjoins with sugar to form the backbone of DNA, holding in meaningful order the letters of genetic information that would otherwise collapse into alphabet soup.

From New York Times Nov. 4, 2022

The name conjoins the daring mission of the Perseverance rover with the legacy of a luminous writer of intellectually daring novels.

From Slate Mar. 30, 2021

Flynn, with the aid of set designer Milagros Ponce de León and costume designer Wade Laboissonniere, activates the joyfully imaginative intersection of “Into the Woods” where fanciful conjoins with baser human impulses — even cruelty.

From Washington Post Mar. 20, 2019

The wife conjoins herself with those things which constitute the man's will.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

When South Africa ushered in democratic rule with Nelson Mandela elected president, the two were merged and the name conjoined.

From BBC Jan. 31, 2026

Yet to call this a partition—in the sense of its being a severing of conjoined people—is questionable.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

They married in 1954, but it wasn’t until 1963 that the conjoined career of Stiller and Maera took off, with an appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2025

He also claimed that in 2002 he helped bring conjoined newborns from Guatemala to Los Angeles, where they underwent an incredibly complicated, highly publicized surgery.

From Slate May 29, 2024

The bus was a double-length one, two buses fused together like conjoined twins by an accordion-pleated rubber seam.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

In our car, an avionics-like black panel stretches across the dash, conjoining the driver’s info and touch-screen interface.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2025

“They will disperse and form conjoining territories next to their mothers, and so if the animal is not able to disperse further, that can easily cause issues with inbreeding,” Bräutigam said.

From Salon Mar. 2, 2024

Although the film isn’t necessarily similar to Haynes’ more recent work, it hits on something he admires in other filmmakers, namely Alfred Hitchcock: conjoining the subversive with the popular.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2023

The kingdom of Kanem-Bornu was less a kingdom than the conjoining of two city- states, Kanem and Bornu.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

The Lord flows into the life's love of the angels, and they receive Him in wisdom, thus in turn conjoining themselves with Him.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by William F. Wunsch




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