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

These shades of feeling, and their interpenetration, are conveyed with extraordinary delicacy and care.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2011

But this mutual interpenetration of the religious and moral ideas is still quite rudimentary.

From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert