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entwine

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Entwine (verb) means to wind two or more things together, or wrap them around each other.

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To wind two or more things together, or wrap them around each other.

"And with the story of the booking office, we have a fortune deeply entwined with the stations encasing them." — Dr Joseph Brennan, England's booking offices of distinction (2024)

"Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths." — Sam Leith, Where the profound meets the profane (2013)

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