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dovetail

[duhv-tayl] / ˈdʌvˌteɪl /


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The balance of the new story will disorient anyone trying to mentally dovetail the old version into the new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

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

Reality and the new science happened, in certain areas of physics, to dovetail quite neatly together.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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