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

But this interpenetration is going on also in younger troupes, companies where you’d expect the founding choreographer to be jealous of his stage time.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019

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

A more elaborate interpenetration of the historical and the personal comes in Act II.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2011

It exemplifies the interpenetration of different states of thought and activity.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)