interpenetration
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The blocks’ zone of interpenetration lies beneath the Cascade Range, where intense pressures produce volcanic peaks like St. Helens, Baker and Rainier.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
A philosopher — Jacques Derrida, say, here seen crossing Houston Street a few years before his death — might wax eloquent on the dialectical interpenetration of presence and absence.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2016
Though, to be more specific, the fear that “Terminator Genisys” reflects is that of centralization, corporate control, and an unwarranted interpenetration of business and government.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 1, 2015
A more elaborate interpenetration of the historical and the personal comes in Act II.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2011
After so many centuries of close contact and interpenetration with other peoples, we can hardly expect to find a pure physical type among the present Basques.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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