interpenetration

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The work draws on Yoruba ideas of cyclical time and the interpenetration of the living, the dead and the not-yet-born.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

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

We could be talking about the interpenetration of jazz and soul music, and George would mention that the bassist Milt Hinton played on “Mr. Lee,” a late-fifties hit by the Bobbettes.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2014

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

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2011

To tell at all adequately why the pang was fine would nevertheless too closely involve my going back, as we have learned to say, on the whole rich interpenetration.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry