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dovetail

[duhv-teyl] / ˈdʌvˌteɪl /


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Tech companies find it easy to introduce AI into their business models because they dovetail so well together, with the controlled environments of industrial applications not far behind.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

The two themes also dovetail neatly with the AI diffusion into the defense industries.

From MarketWatch Mar. 26, 2026

And when these apparitions vanish, the text’s overriding theme—of life’s evanescence but also its beauty—does finally dovetail with the ghostly images created by the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

Gerrard and Lampard, who struggled to dovetail, were paired centrally and Scholes, who the Swede regarded as his "most talented player," was shunted left.

From BBC Oct. 8, 2025

He expected his story to dovetail into milkwarm commiseration, but before Nel could excrete it, Sula said she didn’t know about that—it looked like a pretty good life to her.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison




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