INTERWEAVING Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

interweaving

verb

present participle of interweave

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 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 In the wake of a hurricane, Douglas visits Wortzel in a dream, catalyzing a prismatic journey across the Everglades with Miccosukee educator and activist Betty Osceola and interweaving Douglas’ writing with personal narration, present-day verité and rare archival footage. —

Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025 Woven lace-up sneakers could also be seen, as well as metallic gold shoes with interweaving straps, a pointed-toe shoe with a version of a T-strap, moccasin-esque shoes with laces and more styles. —

Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025 The interweaving crime-movie and possible alien-abduction threads vining around the empty skeleton at this movie’s center never quite cohere, and on-camera interviews with any number of the criminal teens offer no emotional scaffold to grab onto. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025

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The story, at a distance, features the utmost potential for emotional intensity, but the closer the filmmakers get to weaving an overarching tapestry, the more the individual stories run together in terms of tone and spirit.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 12 Mar. 2026
The jazz polymath wrote, played, produced, and mixed everything on his new solo album, weaving overlapping loops and knotty counterpoints into a dynamic suite of interconnected pieces.

— Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2026