intertwine

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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

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

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024

As I mention in the book, I see my mother’s approach to cooking much like a painter’s canvas, where the universality of art and cooking beautifully intertwine.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 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

For Wagner, nothing was allowed to distract from the unfolding musical story and he would happily intertwine chorus, solo, duets, instrumental interludes so that you could hardly tell when one ended and another began.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall