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as in weaving
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 interspersing
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 knotting
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 interweaving
Despite interweaving layers of nonsense with further layers of nonsense, the developers at least wanted to keep the hallucinations lore-consistent, not unlike how media fandoms are obsessed with canon.
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Frank Landymore, Futurism, 13 May 2026
The challenge on ‘Full Circle’ was to find the small and the personal in this big, interweaving world.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2026
His goal is to create a bridge that connects know-how and tradition, interweaving passion and identity.
—Nicola Bambini, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
But the other bills under consideration already reflect one of its core ideas — that because elder care has multiple interweaving facets, addressing the state’s needs will require input from multiple directions, not just the Department of Aging.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2026
An avid field recordist, Kamaru has spoken of running his documentations of his surroundings—buses and bustling markets in Nairobi, sirens and birdsong in Berlin—through various types of digital processing, stretching and mulching and interweaving them with synths until the humdrum becomes musical.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 21 Feb. 2026
The fest will kick off with the world premiere of Jennifer Kroot’s Hunky Jesus, a documentary that follows the unique social justice movement, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, while interweaving a wildly popular, annual Easter Sunday tradition in San Francisco.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026
Grogan’s essay similarly expanded my reading, interweaving a close analysis of Hughes’s and Sterling Brown’s poems with an attention to class and labor.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
Through the decades, Hogg was also a vocal advocate for human rights and social justice, interweaving her beliefs into her designs.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
Frank Landymore, Futurism, 13 May 2026
The challenge on ‘Full Circle’ was to find the small and the personal in this big, interweaving world.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2026
His goal is to create a bridge that connects know-how and tradition, interweaving passion and identity.
—Nicola Bambini, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
But the other bills under consideration already reflect one of its core ideas — that because elder care has multiple interweaving facets, addressing the state’s needs will require input from multiple directions, not just the Department of Aging.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2026
An avid field recordist, Kamaru has spoken of running his documentations of his surroundings—buses and bustling markets in Nairobi, sirens and birdsong in Berlin—through various types of digital processing, stretching and mulching and interweaving them with synths until the humdrum becomes musical.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 21 Feb. 2026
The fest will kick off with the world premiere of Jennifer Kroot’s Hunky Jesus, a documentary that follows the unique social justice movement, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, while interweaving a wildly popular, annual Easter Sunday tradition in San Francisco.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026
Grogan’s essay similarly expanded my reading, interweaving a close analysis of Hughes’s and Sterling Brown’s poems with an attention to class and labor.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
Through the decades, Hogg was also a vocal advocate for human rights and social justice, interweaving her beliefs into her designs.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interweaving
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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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May 26 sports commentary Hey, Sean Keeler, Kiss every bruise, interspersing my whooped behind.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
29 May 2026
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The final touch, though, was interspersing Robert’s memories into his joyous, climactic plane ride.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
6 Feb. 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 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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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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“Interweaving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interweaving. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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