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intertwine

[in-ter-twahyn] / ˌɪn tərˈtwaɪn /


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Their harmonies intertwine like two gulls in flight.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 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

Julee Cruise’s siren vocals intertwine with imperceptible grooves that swell like gentle ocean waves.

From Salon Jan. 29, 2025

As she offers her prayers, the sacred space becomes a moment of spiritual release, where devotion and vulnerability intertwine.

From BBC Nov. 30, 2024

The stems twist and intertwine, the branches cluster with red berries, purple flowers.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

It raises funds to benefit 10 like-minded advocacy groups, and intertwines her music career and women’s rights advocacy in ways few pop artists at her scale are attempting.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

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

"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

The mother in clothing this germ of life commingles, intertwines, and insinuates her own spirit, at the same time educating, instructing, and determining its development according to the influence she imparts to it.

From Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Henry Newell Guernsey

Pointing out that everything is "intertwined", Gaye is now less able to buy fish from mongers like Darboe-Manneh.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

The solidarity of Sept. 11 and the political choices made in its aftermath were not the same thing, even if they have become intertwined in our memory of the period.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

“AI gives us instant answers, and it goes even beyond that to where it gives you advice these days. And in that sense, AI has indeed really gotten deeply intertwined in my daily life.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

Hollywood’s increasingly skeptical view of tech comes as the two industries have never been more intertwined.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

She had intertwined her fingers on the stone table before her and was staring at them tensely.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

"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

Then he recombed it and rebraided the queue, intertwining the red ribbon through the braids.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep




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