dovetailing

present participle of dovetail

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Recent Examples of dovetailing The pattern has been identical on the right flank, with Porro’s clinching goal against France being a perfect example of the dovetailing wide players working to full effect. Mark Carey, New York Times, 18 July 2026 Others including Messika, Repossi and Graff, dovetailing their high jewelry with a broader selection of their offerings. Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026 The clever live production finds cool cat bassist Rick Savage thrumming out a solo before dovetailing into the song’s familiar opening riff, which gives Elliott enough time to dash to the top level of the theater to belt the evocative anthem. Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026 The vision is primed to keep expanding, dovetailing with a number of upcoming events. Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2026 Season 1 had an ideal structure in the trio of obstacles engineered by Alexandre, dovetailing with Camille and Issei’s dawning acceptance of each other as allies instead of enemies. Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026 Even as wedding registries shift and honeymoon funds replace fine china, antique case pieces and modern iterations of china cabinets are on the rise again—dovetailing with modern maximalism’s emphasis on playing up your home’s personality and the design world’s recent sweet spot for nostalgia. Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 16 Jan. 2026 But after a beaming Wilkins stood beside Patel at his swearing-in ceremony in February, that number skyrocketed to 105,300 streams, dovetailing to 17,400 and 10,600 streams in the following two weeks. Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2025 An inch of rain or more fell in communities across the capital region with Thursday’s wet and windy storm, but the weekend’s dovetailing systems should pack a weaker punch, said Kate Forrest, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Sacramento. Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dovetailing
Verb
  • Concerns over public health, drug use, safety and the cost to emergency services have helped fuel local policies to build more shelters, coinciding with drops in the number of people living on the street.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
  • Nevertheless, shares of CrowdStrike and fellow Club cyber name Palo Alto Networks fell nearly 2% Wednesday, coinciding with a broader pullback in enterprise software stocks in the session.
    Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • In a corresponding move, the Royals recalled outfielder John Rave from Triple-A Omaha.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 July 2026
  • In corresponding roster moves, William Bradley-King and Andrew Farmer were waived injured.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • These include completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) by the end of 2026, which will establish the certifiable design baseline for the aircraft and enable the production and testing of certification-conforming models.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
  • Whenever there is irregular talent, someone capable of breaking their role’s conventions, there are arguments about conforming to orthodoxy.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 18 July 2026
Verb
  • That reality depends on localized AI fitting seamlessly into everyday devices — something that’s been a persistent engineering hurdle.
    Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2026
  • Opponents see both quarterbacks fitting well with their new schemes and play callers.
    Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 24 July 2026

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“Dovetailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dovetailing. Accessed 31 Jul. 2026.

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