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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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as in intertwines
to twist together into a usually confused mass
in our play the kitten and I managed to interweave the skeins of yarn into a hopeless tangle
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Recent Examples of interweaves
Adapted from Joseph’s seminal video art installation, which was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2019, the film interweaves fictional and historical characters in an immersive story that spans 247 years across land and sea.
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Zac Ntim, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
The novel interweaves the stories of two women whose lives have been touched by a magical library known as the time space that houses people's memories.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Sahara Clemons, a multimedia artist and designer based in New York City, who interweaves painting, textiles and dance in her creative process.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Zac Ntim, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
The novel interweaves the stories of two women whose lives have been touched by a magical library known as the time space that houses people's memories.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Sahara Clemons, a multimedia artist and designer based in New York City, who interweaves painting, textiles and dance in her creative process.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interweaves
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The path weaves among boulders flanked by fading ferns and tenacious wildflowers.—
Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Directed by Meji Alabi, who worked on Beyoncé’s Black Is King, the project weaves narratives from different stages of the rapper’s life and was filmed across Europe, the United States, and Africa.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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Greengrass intersperses those blistering moments with scenes of firefighters and other authorities talking about how to deal with the fire and filling in plot points away from the action.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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Private property intersperses protected areas.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
20 Sep. 2025
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The novel intertwines present-day events with painful memories of the lives of her parents, who tried to protect their love from war, jealousy, and the cruelty of the merciless Soviet government.—
Nelly Klos
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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In figuring out how that intertwines with Vera’s character, for Laila to then have that superpower at the end is really cool.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Sep. 2025
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The result is a compact, efficient, and high-power light source that combines industrial strength with scientific precision.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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The collection combines denim with laser, hand-painting, marbling, photography and more.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Oct. 2025
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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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Lauren Robbins, founder and lead designer of Lauren Robbins Interiors in Augusta, Georgia, incorporates them into many of her designs already, considering them more a timeless feature than a trend.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
11 Oct. 2025
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One incorporates a minute repeater, while the other combines a minute repeater with a split-seconds chronograph.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Interweaves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interweaves. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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