as in to connect
to fit (two or more things) together securely
She interlocked her fingers with his.
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Recent Examples of interlock
Snap-together play mats feature a basic design composed of interlocking foam tiles that look like puzzle pieces.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
They are always curled up together like two interlocking puzzle pieces.
—Maryanne Dell, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
Your fingers interlock in an S-grip around her stomach.
—Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
The World’s First Interlocking Water Bottle At the center of One Water’s debut is its proprietary interlocking bottle technology, the first of its kind in the bottled water industry.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
They are always curled up together like two interlocking puzzle pieces.
—Maryanne Dell, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
Your fingers interlock in an S-grip around her stomach.
—Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
The World’s First Interlocking Water Bottle At the center of One Water’s debut is its proprietary interlocking bottle technology, the first of its kind in the bottled water industry.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interlock
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Aside from all the restaurants you're connected to, what is your favorite restaurant in Cincinnati?—
David Wysong,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
3 Oct. 2025
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There have been three prominent Listeria outbreaks recorded in the United States this year connected to prepared foods, including pasta meals such as chicken fettuccine Alfredo.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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He was linked with Liverpool, Tottenham and Newcastle in the summer.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Sports betting operators have no influence over nor are any such revenues in any way dependent on or linked to the newsrooms or news coverage.—
Jacob Camenker,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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Now two people who once served at Defending Education have been named to posts in the Education Department, and leaders from Moms for Liberty have joined McMahon for roundtables and other official events.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
8 Oct. 2025
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Williams then attended a reception in which current football coach Lance Leipold joined emcee Greg Gurley and approximately 200 well-wishers at a gathering to honor Williams.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
8 Oct. 2025
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Jane's chimp imitation was an easy choice to hook the average, even mildly interested, reader.—
Ron Arias,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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Skarsgård was hooked by the logline alone before reading the actual script.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Oct. 2025
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The answer against Florida and Missouri was McConkey, who had his two best games of the year, combining for 13 catches and 230 yards.—
Seth Emerson,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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In this case, the ACIP guidance formalizes an existing recommendation, which is designed to reduce a very rare, slightly elevated risk of seizures when the two shots are combined into a single injection.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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The upcoming pact dovetails with ICAA’s objectives to expand its bilateral agreements worldwide.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
23 Sep. 2025
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With some technologies acquired by SAP are wholly consumed into the company’s underbelly, SuccessFactors has retained its original identity and dovetails well with the company’s ERP suite of business function software.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Following the success, Google may be planning to integrate the image model into some of its other apps and services.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
8 Oct. 2025
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In those intervening 35 years, China had moved 800 million rural peasants — living in extreme poverty on US$2 a day — into city apartments and integrated them into the global economy.—
Peter Leyden,
Big Think,
7 Oct. 2025
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The group is closely intermeshed with the Taliban and its leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, was appointed as a deputy in the Taliban back in 2015.—
Zachary Halaschak,
Washington Examiner,
15 May 2020
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China and Japan are also both set to take financial hits from the virus, which has disrupted their intermeshed manufacturing and battered tourism.—
Isabel Reynolds,
Bloomberg.com,
5 May 2020
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“Interlock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interlock. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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