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intertwine

[in-ter-twahyn] / ˌɪn tərˈtwaɪn /


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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

In this vision of marriage, spouses don’t occupy separate gender-based spheres; they intertwine their lives, each working to strengthen the scaffolding that supports the other.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2024

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

U.S. regulators are now taking a closer look at the Wall Street playbook that effectively intertwines private credit with traditional life insurance.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 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

Sundays should be reserved for giving praise, says the pastor’s wife, Karen Anderson Hardaway, whose voice intertwines with her husband’s in the call and response of worship.

From Seattle Times Oct. 31, 2023

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

Many prominently featured slogans, which were intertwined with suffragette banners and ribbons.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

The far-out future of AI remains hazy, and it is increasingly intertwined with huge questions about interest rates and inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

"Vinted's journey has certainly been intertwined with the broader development of Lithuania's startup ecosystem," said the company's vice president for corporate affairs, Jessie de la Merced, arguing that its presence has had a "multiplier effect".

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

In a memoir, he wrote of how intensely he identified with the character: “Perry and I were intertwined like vines over the same grave.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

The golden ratio was favored by artists and nature alike and seemed to prove the Pythagorean assertion that music, beauty, architecture, nature, and the very construction of the cosmos were all intertwined and inseparable.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

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

So my outfit is like intertwining my culture — I’m half Mexican, half Nicaraguan — with my best friend’s culture.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 1, 2024

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

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep




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