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  • verb Present participle of interplay.
  • adjective Mutually or reciprocally interacting

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Examples

  • In the same way a sigh, a breath, a word are but the last stage and superficial explosion of nervous tensions, tensions which from the point of view of their other eventual expressions we might call interplaying impulses or potential memories.

    The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

  • We are used to these private narratives -- comic, tragic and pathetic -- but even in modern fiction, after centuries of these modes interplaying, blending, weaving through and around each other in a single work ... one wrong move, one crossed wire, can still result in a collapse of suspension of disbelief.

    Strange Fiction 4 Hal Duncan 2006

  • We are used to these private narratives -- comic, tragic and pathetic -- but even in modern fiction, after centuries of these modes interplaying, blending, weaving through and around each other in a single work ... one wrong move, one crossed wire, can still result in a collapse of suspension of disbelief.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • But it kind of gives you an idea for how big of a circus, if I can use those words, this has become, with kind of everyone interplaying, and this information really getting mixed up.

    CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2007 2007

  • The interplaying shock waves were an aerodynamic cacophony and the engines throttled back to keep the vehicle from tearing itself apart.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • He doesn't seem to have the patience Ives's music demands in terms of flow and ebbing of tempos and rhythms, its chordal manisfestations and interplaying of old white spirtuals and campground shennanigans woven with a smooth, cool needle.

    NOISE!!!!! The Daily Growler 2006

  • The interplaying shock waves were an aerodynamic cacophony and the engines throttled back to keep the vehicle from tearing itself apart.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • The interplaying shock waves were an aerodynamic cacophony and the engines throttled back to keep the vehicle from tearing itself apart.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • The interplaying shock waves were an aerodynamic cacophony and the engines throttled back to keep the vehicle from tearing itself apart.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • The "feel" of an audience, -- that indescribable sense of the composite human soul waiting on the initiative of your own, the emotional currents interplaying along a medium so delicate that it takes the baffling torture of an obstruction to reveal its existence, -- cannot be taught.

    How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant

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