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intertwine

[in-ter-twahyn] / ˌɪn tərˈtwaɪn /


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Throughout these tales, the careers of eminent scientific figures intertwine with the lives of ordinary people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The script’s two mysteries — why is Tau Ceti safe and why is Grace not — intertwine in flashbacks that are interesting enough for a while.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

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

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

Can you talk a bit about how your professional life and cooking intertwine?

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2024

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

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

Mr. Brewer intertwines the movie’s two registers brilliantly in an opening scene in which Mr. Jackman does a brief musical performance that doubles as the monologue he delivers to his 12-step group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

The bold, unconventional “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” intertwines jazz with decolonization in its telling of newfound, fragile Congolese independence during the Cold War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 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

Each of the first two pairs intertwines with the other: the last, Mort Artus, completes them all, and thus its title was not improperly used in later times to designate the whole Legend.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

They’re hilarious, but there are lives intertwined with the art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

But it does reveal how closely the language of hospitality is intertwined with the language of efficiency.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Inevitably this discussion may become intertwined with the question of replacing the council tax.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

He intertwined his fingers and tried to rub out the pain.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

"What it does portend, to me, is that Hong Kong will accelerate its economic intertwining with Beijing."

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

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

And again, on many places there was black cloth draped with intertwining ribbons of blue and gold.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi


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