intertwine
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Canada and the EU are looking to intertwine research institutions to create a network of scientific output to compete with the U.S. university system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
There is no confession and no announcement; Joyce simply comes to realise, as the secrets accumulate and the women's lives intertwine, that her idea of a monogamous marriage has been a sham all along.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
But navigating the ins and outs of stories that intertwine without overstepping has required nimbleness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
Mr. Hofstadter likes to intertwine a couple’s names as a wedding gift, for example, so that “Rachel” rotates into “Winston.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The minty smell of his soap, the warmth of his arms, how when our fingers intertwine, the brown of my skin and the brown of his are nearly a perfect match.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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Chapter by chapter, the author intertwines the sagas of both sets of grandparents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
The deal further intertwines Musk's sprawling business empire, which already includes carmaker Tesla and social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
The New Yorker’s Grann intertwines the racism and injustices of 1920s Oklahoma, corruption of local authorities and the mysterious deaths of several Osage people, mostly women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
"But now there's a very direct lineage between local teams, larger structures like the NFL Academy, leagues and how it all intertwines."
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024
In both we miss the great dramatist who looks upon life with a roving eye and intertwines his tale of private woe with the larger tangle of human destiny.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
“Jensen Huang has become enormously influential in shaping U.S. chip policy, and Nvidia’s commercial interests are intertwined with Washington’s China strategy in complex and sometimes conflicting ways,” Lee said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
The discovery suggests that persistent back pain may become deeply intertwined with a person's sense of self, potentially helping explain why conventional pain treatments often provide limited relief.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
For these elections are not just proximate, they are intertwined.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
They’re hilarious, but there are lives intertwined with the art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
There are a million threads from the past intertwined to make the ropes and cables of the modern world.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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"What it does portend, to me, is that Hong Kong will accelerate its economic intertwining with Beijing."
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
The themes of “Queen Esther” will be familiar to Mr. Irving’s many readers, who will also recognize his habit of intertwining fiction with personal history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
The deal would signal a deeper "intertwining" of the government and private businesses in the US, following a trend seen elsewhere in places like China, Mr Nicholson told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025
In Mussolini’s Italy, intellectuals were coerced into swearing loyalty to the fascist state, and scholarship became a tool of nationalist propaganda, intertwining classical myths with imperial ambition.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025
Matthias felt a gentle paw intertwining with his own.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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