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as in weaved
to cause to twine about one another
marveled at how the vines had delicately and intricately entwined themselves on the trellis
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as in coiled
to follow a circular or spiral course
the quick-growing vine was soon entwining around the fence post
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as in twisted
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Recent Examples of entwined
Rachel Raposas, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
This chunky entwined pair from Missoma offers just the right amount of weight for an everyday hoop that can go casual or glam.
—Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2025
Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025
And it’s entwined with furthering the cause of mental health support and awareness in the name of Ryan, who died by suicide last December.
—Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
For Swift, whose personal brand is entwined with storytelling, this choice reads as narrative as much as aesthetic.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The reader bobs along in the author’s stream of consciousness, riding crests of despair, anger, and hilarity as Toews assembles the shards of her past to investigate her will to write, which is deeply entwined with her will to live.
—Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025
Drahi and Pereira owned adjacent plots of land on Nevis, and the two men’s fortunes were tightly entwined.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Their seeds entwined in neat galactic sequence, not quite black yet, but stripy grey, soft and slightly wet, nature’s treat for small children as well as birds.
—Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
In many ways, Indigenous language is entwined with Indigenous identity and worldview.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Toomer’s Drugs, Auburn University, and the Auburn Tigers football team have been entwined since the very beginning—far before the tradition of rolling the trees at Toomer’s Corner began in the 1960s.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
The pair ultimately become entwined in a complicated relationship in the erotic crime thriller.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
This chunky entwined pair from Missoma offers just the right amount of weight for an everyday hoop that can go casual or glam.
—Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Not only that, it is intimately entwined with the Saudi state.
—Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025
And it’s entwined with furthering the cause of mental health support and awareness in the name of Ryan, who died by suicide last December.
—Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
For Swift, whose personal brand is entwined with storytelling, this choice reads as narrative as much as aesthetic.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The reader bobs along in the author’s stream of consciousness, riding crests of despair, anger, and hilarity as Toews assembles the shards of her past to investigate her will to write, which is deeply entwined with her will to live.
—Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025
Drahi and Pereira owned adjacent plots of land on Nevis, and the two men’s fortunes were tightly entwined.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Their seeds entwined in neat galactic sequence, not quite black yet, but stripy grey, soft and slightly wet, nature’s treat for small children as well as birds.
—Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
In many ways, Indigenous language is entwined with Indigenous identity and worldview.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Toomer’s Drugs, Auburn University, and the Auburn Tigers football team have been entwined since the very beginning—far before the tradition of rolling the trees at Toomer’s Corner began in the 1960s.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entwined
Verb
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The skunk with distemper is stuck in the window well again, chewing incessantly on the garden hose that is coiled up in there.—
Miriam Toews
September 3,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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Inside each 13-centimeter-long rectangular 8-track cartridge is a loop of almost 1 cm-wide magnetic tape that is coiled around a circular reel, as explained in an EverPresent blog post on the technology.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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There’s a twisted wit to the setup here, as Kolstad takes real trends in American life — economic stagnation, rising tribalism, gun fetishism — and follows them to their corrupt, violent end points.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2025
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When those two go rogue, Ulysses enlists Gunderson’s misunderstood adult child, Alex (Jess McLeod), who’s like the wide-eyed kid to Odenkirk’s Shane, in this movie’s twisted-Western logic.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Ronny curled into the passenger seat and switched the track to a rolling-bass beat from Future.—
Bryan Washington,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
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The white beard, the twinkling eyes behind round spectacles, the mustache curled with wax at its ends are all real, all his.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The first part of the movie is devoted to taking us inside his local empire of warped belief, which skews right-wing.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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McNally also played with the idea that the older man trying to catch Frank was, at least in this warped universe, a kind of surrogate father who developed genuine affection for his quarry.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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