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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

Romance, on the other hand, implies a unique feeling two people share, a spark that can be nurtured together as their lives intertwine.

From Salon Jun. 4, 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

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

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

On songs like “Slushy” and “Predictable Girl,” she intertwines a menagerie of robotic, spacey sirens with tinges of Jersey club beats and ’90s-influenced R&B chords.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 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

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

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

Owens saw clearly, Spencer said, how culture and politics were intertwined.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

While geographic proximity ensures the two countries will remain intertwined, the deeply integrated economic relationship of recent decades may be coming to an end.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

To be successful in achieving Bessent’s objectives, the U.S. government will need a comprehensive framework for industrial policies that treats geoeconomics, AI and energy as intertwined domains, not as separate silos.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

The themes of space and time are, as we have seen, intertwined.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Ellison’s subject was America, whose many intertwining strands he saw as forming one great ecosystem.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 2026

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

It felt like mine, this intertwining of fennel and gruyere, two magnificent ingredients, becoming something even better than the sum of the parts.

From Salon Mar. 23, 2025

Duell’s character — a love child intertwining the rival Quartermaine and Corinthos families — was born onscreen in 1997 and was at the center of a heated custody battle since birth.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2024

He drew his sword and looked at it, and the intertwining shapes of red and gold; and the flowing characters of Númenor glinted like fire upon the blade.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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