entwist

verb

Definition of entwistnext
as in to braid

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entwist
  1. braid
  2. wind
  3. plait
  4. twine
  5. entwine
  6. writhe
  7. weave
Verb
  • On Beka, hair braiding continued to be this daily bonding time with many of the women.
    EW.com, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • My grandmother didn’t teach me to fill and braid this beloved pastry.
    Emily Alben, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of braid
Verb
  • Traffic often clogs the road winding from Española, past the Pueblo de San Ildefonso and up the Pajarito Plateau.
    Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Observing this coming need for power, Amazon, Google, Meta, OpenAI and others have invested billions into everything from solar and wind to advanced nuclear and geothermal.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of wind
Verb
  • The key difference is that Bora Bora braids are typically plaited in line with the existing length of your natural hair, allowing the remainder of the curly human hair to billow outwards and form the bulk of the hairstyle.
    Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 29 July 2024
  • Even Kim Kardashian’s tousled platinum hair was loosely plaited into a fishtail braid in the back.
    Hannah Coates, Vogue, 7 May 2024
Definition of plait
Verb
  • Plants grow as a twining vine that benefits from an arbor or trellis for support.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Gaffney leads me to the spinning room to witness a blur of threads rapidly twining around spinning cones.
    Shane C Kurup, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of twine
Verb
  • But the site is intimately entwined with a long-standing anti-immigrant movement that, until recently, was widely rejected.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The growth of entropy is deeply entwined with our most basic experiences, accounting for why time runs forward and why the world appears deterministic rather than quantum mechanically uncertain.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of entwine
Verb
  • Three aluminum sculptures from roughly a decade later resemble flabby beings who writhe around above viewers’ heads.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • In the film, Depp’s Ellen violently writhes during Orlok’s perverse subconscious visits to her, and her filmmaker was determined to use as little CGI as possible for these demanding sequences.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of writhe
Verb
  • Its sophomore outing lacked the original's surreal magic, but S3 was a solid return to form, mixing elements of noir and procedural drama to weave a haunting tale of fractured time and memory.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Even in seemingly simple products, like his candle collections and eyewear, Armani weaves magic, demonstrating his dedication to purposeful and intentional design.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of weave
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