as in to connect
to fit (two or more things) together securely
She interlocked her fingers with his.
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Recent Examples of interlock
In it, a family shield their faces, and each other, from a sandstorm, huddled in a tight mass of interlocking bodies.
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Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Her sudden passing at a young age meant many of her sculptures, with interlocking components, exist as instructions that gallery and foundation are constructing and exhibiting.
—Maddie Klett, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
His right arm was covered in tattoos — tattoos that law enforcement would later use to help identify his body after the Cybertruck explosion — that showed a recent addition to his tattoo sleeve near his right elbow: a triple-crescent symbol of three interlocking moons.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025
In the modern age, threats interlock, intertwine and overlap.
—Pierre Du Rostu, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Her sudden passing at a young age meant many of her sculptures, with interlocking components, exist as instructions that gallery and foundation are constructing and exhibiting.
—Maddie Klett, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
His right arm was covered in tattoos — tattoos that law enforcement would later use to help identify his body after the Cybertruck explosion — that showed a recent addition to his tattoo sleeve near his right elbow: a triple-crescent symbol of three interlocking moons.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025
In the modern age, threats interlock, intertwine and overlap.
—Pierre Du Rostu, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for interlock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interlock
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There are also pieces that connect Twain to the history of Hartford, advertising which used his name or image to promote stores or utility companies.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
9 Feb. 2025
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Wyoming was led by 6-foot-4 center Allyson Fertig, who connected on 10 of her 14 attempts from inside to score 20 points — just over her Mountain West-leading average of 19.1 points a game.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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Observers saw the two actions as linked, an attempt to curry favor with the new administration, and very much at odds with how the entertainment industry mounted a public resistance against the first Trump presidency.—
Samantha Masunaga,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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Weaver feels this indestructible vision links directors as disparate as Ridley Scott, Peter Weir, Walter Hill, Paul Schrader, James Cameron, and Mike Nichols.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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According to Fightful Select, sources at AEW are expecting Alexander to join Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, and MVP as part of The Hurt Syndicate.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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Malen pushed to join and changed agents last September, a sure sign of a player wanting to formalise an exit strategy.—
Jacob Tanswell,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
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The original trilogy is legendary — the perfect thing to hook a budding fan — while the prequel and sequel trilogies are pivotal yet divisive.—
Katie Rife,
EW.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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Jon, meanwhile, holes up in his squalid quarters surrounded by takeout containers and dirty clothes while hooked onto a cheap-looking VR game that hardly inspires the wonderment in us it’s supposed to in him.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
14 Feb. 2025
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Guggenheim Architecture and Design Studio The dining room at a Parkdale, Oregon, retreat designed by Guggenheim Architecture and Design Studio combines a concert of natural wood finishes, celebrating the palette of the rural setting.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
10 Feb. 2025
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The two teams combined for a 73-point shootout in their first Super Bowl meeting.—
Faris Tanyos,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2025
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This dovetailed with a larger deinstitutionalization movement that argued that federal money for mental health and addiction care should be shifted to local communities.—
TIME,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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Here is an idea that neatly dovetails with MBS’s hopes for peace in the Middle East, but one that is equally impossible without normalization – and an independent Palestinian state.—
Nic Robertson,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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Also at the University of Chicago, NORC is part of a consortium that last year received a $53 million, 10-year grant to better integrate the use of evidence and data into USAID programs.—
Dan Petrella,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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The decade is lushly integrated into the storyline, a soft focus and sepia tones bring an air of nostalgia to the fore as the sets and cast recreate the trappings of a gritty Madrid, 1979.—
Holly Jones,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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The group is closely intermeshed with the Taliban and its leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, was appointed as a deputy in the Taliban back in 2015.—
Zachary Halaschak,
Washington Examiner,
15 May 2020
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China and Japan are also both set to take financial hits from the virus, which has disrupted their intermeshed manufacturing and battered tourism.—
Isabel Reynolds,
Bloomberg.com,
5 May 2020
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“Interlock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interlock. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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