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 superb work by editor ​Charlotte Munch Bengtsen (All That Breathes), Lo interweaves images of nature and the bustling city that lend context to the central drama without putting too fine a point on it. Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025 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. 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 film’s seamless structure weaves together elements of folklore, intimate observation and environmental urgency.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Enjoy tennis, pickleball, and padel courts and perfect your swing on the 18 holes of the Greg Norman–designed El Camaleón Golf Course, which weaves through jungle, canals, and coastline.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 24 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
  • Private property intersperses protected areas.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 20 Sep. 2025
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  • The plot intertwines fears of the climate crisis and a strange reunion with her mother, who abandoned her long ago.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The novel intertwines elements of espionage with philosophical explorations of human history, environmentalism, and the complexities of identity and manipulation.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • The Peychaud’s Bitters, all cherry and anise as opposed to Angostura Bitters’ cinnamon and clove, combines with the herbal pop of absinthe and the spicy backbone of the rye to create something wholly new.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The song combines love at first sight, drugs, and death.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 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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  • The journey there today regularly incorporates creature comforts that were inconceivable even two decades ago.
    Brad Japhe, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The Strangers also incorporates parts of the Keddie Cabin Murders, reports Screen Rant, in which four people were killed in a small resort town in California.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Interweaves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interweaves. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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