intertwining

present participle of intertwine

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Recent Examples of intertwining Movies built from intertwining stories can be hard to pull off. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 June 2026 Directed by Alice Winocour, the film follows an American filmmaker working during Paris Fashion Week who receives a life-altering breast cancer diagnosis, intertwining her story with those of a South Sudanese model and a makeup artist navigating their own pressures within the industry. Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 17 June 2026 Boston is a city of intertwining neighborhoods, where great restaurants aren’t exclusively the domain of tasting menus and white tablecloths. Tanya Edwards, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 June 2026 These two intertwining stories drive home the impact of that time and its reverberations through the decades in a page-turning, illuminating novel. Caroline Killilea, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026 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 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 The Sculpture Park, with around 60 works from artists like Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, and George Trakas beautifully intertwining with nature, is another highlight. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 May 2026 Amazon Freevee’s bilingual series followed the intertwining lives of various families in the farmlands of Northern California. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 1 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intertwining
Verb
  • McDonald was outstanding in the final, a lithe genius skilfully weaving through the strapping men around him.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 27 July 2026
  • Like Suarez, the Boston bullpen spent some time weaving in and out of traffic.
    Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2026
Verb
  • The designs were inspired by Lynda Benglis, an American known for transforming two-dimensional materials through knotting, pleating or molding, into three.
    Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
  • His shot was saved by a diving Neuer, knotting the PKs at three apiece, giving Germany extra life and dragging the shootout on into sudden death.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • As Smith read Colt’s writings, the teenager remained expressionless, sometimes gently rocking and twisting in his chair.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
  • A lot of this work is almost unreadable now, the pained efforts of young eggheads twisting themselves into rhetorical knots over the moral conundrums posed by real-world applications of Marxist principles.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • If your duvet cover has buttons or zippers, Ceconi recommends fastening the closures before laundering to prevent tangling.
    Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 14 July 2026
  • This will help prevent tangling and stretching during the wash cycle.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • While that shutdown ostensibly ended in mid-November, a partial government shutdown dragged on through April, snarling the Department of Homeland Security and causing long delays and confusion at airports across the country.
    Drew Pittock, USA Today, 23 July 2026
  • Just like in the darnkess cave, the snarling machine gun of thoughts—unanswered emails, to-dos, and angst about my 17 year old’s plans to travel the world alone—slowly fell silent.
    Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026

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“Intertwining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intertwining. Accessed 29 Jul. 2026.

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