interweaves

present tense third-person singular of interweave
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as in weaves
to cause to twine about one another interweaved garlands of red and gold beads and wrapped them around the Christmas tree

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as in intersperses
to scatter or set here and there among other things the author artfully interweaves excerpts from soldiers' letters into his history of the Vietnam War

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Recent Examples of interweaves With powerful visual storytelling, the film interweaves groundbreaking science and personal testimony to offer a radical and profound examination of maternal metamorphosis. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026 Greene’s film interweaves scenes from the family’s movies, footage of them being filmed, moments from real life, interviews; watching Too Much Sugar is like being rolled around inside a kaleidoscope of documentary images. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026 The Gracious Visionary interweaves documentary and reenacted components to tell the story of how his mindset was shaped by learning philosophy, playing cards and the generosity of others. — Nick Vivarelli For Variety, Robb Report, 20 July 2026 Uprooted interweaves nature writing with personal memoir to share Hua’s foraging experience. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026 Mendieta is best known for work that interweaves sadness with violence, drawing on her experiences of exile and her feminist politics to negotiate the transient fragility of life. — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026 The film, which interweaves documentary and reenacted components, was shot in Umbria. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 26 May 2026 As Seth seethes about his separation from his home country (and the family fortune), Arias interweaves a backstory involving assassination, undisclosed parentage and (as the title suggests) the perilous creatures slithering across the landscape. — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026 Cleeves interweaves ancient Orcadian history, myths and traditions into the story. — The Know, Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2026
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  • The village's pedestrian-only strip weaves through small shops, restaurants, and boutiques, and there's a Naval Museum housed in a 19th-century captain’s mansion that highlights the island’s maritime history—and is worth a visit.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • In the park, the designers combined four species of flowers with broken pieces of local pottery to form a polychromatic mosaic that weaves together vegetation and craft.
    — Kieron Marchese, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026
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  • The visual intersperses footage from a trip the pair took to Iceland with clips of their Upstate New York home, a fitting backdrop to Sprague’s spectral vocals and wandering synth arcs.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 23 June 2026
  • Captured over four back-to-back performances in Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena in July 2025, the nearly two-hour movie intersperses most of her set list with endearing snippets of behind-the-scenes footage from the day leading up to the show.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2026
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  • Drawing on home movies, street-protest footage, newspapers, sketches, photographs, and recorded voices, Ahangarani intertwines her life story with more than four decades of political upheaval.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The latter reached the Billboard 200 with its spacious and deep dreamy sound that intertwines guitar melodies and gentle Latin pulses driven by subtle percussion.
    — Cata Balzano, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026
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  • For Le Bon Marché, the auction will offer a way to bring a specialist collecting market into a department store, creating an event that combines an exhibition, shopping and a live experience.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Her work combines music, illustration, animation and fashion.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026
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  • No matter how many knots a lawyer ties themselves in to get there, legality is not legitimacy.
    — Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Stories like these usually lurch from one contrivance and complication to the next, but Chad Powers knots itself into a genuinely thorny conflict by the finale.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • Dinner incorporates international influences and local seafood.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Comedy Playground’s curriculum incorporates stand-up, led by Spies, which helps kids find their own voice, and improv, led by Katey Mushlin, which teaches them how to work with others and create meaningful bonds, Spies explained.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
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  • So here's the part where DC's comic book logic tangles itself into knots.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But consent decrees are legally and politically complicated, and the treatment of migrant children further tangles the situation.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026
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  • Day to day, as the city grows, there’s also the question of traffic, which snarls the city as public transit initiatives have repeatedly struggled.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
  • Security snarls The TSA PreCheck line at terminal B in LaGuardia Airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, on March 27, 2026.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026

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“Interweaves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interweaves. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

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