1
as in weaving
to cause to twine about one another
interlaced strands of her hair for a new look
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as in combining
to scatter or set here and there among other things
interlaced jokes between the serious passages in the speech
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as in knotting
to twist together into a usually confused mass
I've interlaced the cables on my audio-video system so confusingly that I've no idea what connects what
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Recent Examples of interlacing
Francella shape-shifts in the film from international film director to street dollar-seller to billionaire, the portraits interlacing into a brisk mosaic of contemporary Argentina.
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Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
There, her features flashed with high-beam brilliance, whether sitting in the solo hot seat or interlacing with Garcia in a duet.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
There, her features flashed with high-beam brilliance, whether sitting in the solo hot seat or interlacing with Garcia in a duet.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interlacing
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Set the scene After weaving through downtown Nassau, passing the towering cruise ships in port, and waiting in traffic on the bridge to Paradise Island, arriving at the Ocean Club is a breath of fresh air (and a sigh of relief).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 May 2026
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The show’s storylines have largely revolved around drunken fights, messy breakups, hookups and cheating allegations while occasionally weaving in more serious conversations about race, mental health and fractured childhoods.—
Pilar Melendez,
NBC news,
27 May 2026
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The Gen 1 models were assembled by combining replica 356 bodies with more modern Porsche suspension, engines, transmissions, and more.—
Peter Nelson,
Robb Report,
27 May 2026
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Optical interferometers were invented more than a century ago, but orchestrating and combining signals from multiple telescopes across long baselines has proved much harder to accomplish with visible light compared to the relative ease of working in radio waves.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
27 May 2026
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Rybakina staged a comeback midway through the third set, knotting the score at 4-4 from 3-0 down.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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Surprisingly the most expensive hairpiece so far has been Attenborough’s, which Fortune reveals was a hybrid of a cheap £20 ($26) wig at the back combined with tens of man-hours knotting individual strands of hair onto a lace front to create the centenarian’s familiar pate.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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Alex Edwards kneeled on the carpet to calm down Zuri Kafuko, 3, by twisting part of her hair back in place.—
William J. Ford,
Baltimore Sun,
25 May 2026
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Press straight down to cut the dough, without twisting the cutter, to keep the layers intact.—
Terrence Hayes,
Southern Living,
19 May 2026
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The service From those on reception to the barmen mixing the cocktails, staff are helpful and friendly, without being over-the-top attentive.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Yakgwa is a type of traditional Korean cookie made by mixing wheat flour with honey, sesame oil, ginger juice and a bit of rice wine and then pressing the dough mixture into a mold and deep-frying it.—
Regina Kim,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Recently, researchers in Germany developed a chain-launching drone interceptor that disables UAVs by tangling their spinning rotors midair.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
8 May 2026
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Wrap cords using cable ties to prevent tangling and fraying.—
Maria Sabella,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Apr. 2026
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But Probst has made a gradual transition from hosting the show to shaping the show in his idealized image to, this season, inserting himself into the show and making it all about him.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2026
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The Mets may look to swap the roles of Peterson and left-hander Sean Manaea, putting Peterson in the bullpen and inserting Manaea into the rotation.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2026
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The scents come in glass bottles with a retro appeal and details winking to the house’s couture tradition, such as the metal logo intertwining with a safety pin and a vintage-looking pear pump sprayer adorned with the fabrics of the ateliers.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
20 May 2026
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But mostly, the intertwining threads just sit there, never coming together in any satisfying way or holding up as their own story within the story, despite how hard the writers work at showing that reality can inspire fiction but fiction can also bounce back to influence reality.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2026
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“Interlacing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interlacing. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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