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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conjoin.

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  • Even more surprising is contralto Johnaye Kendrick, who doesn't sing anything like a conventional big-band vocal refrain all night, but who conjoins with the leader in forming a two-person vocal section; occasionally there are words, but they're generally chanted in what sounds like an African dialect, indicating that it isn't about the lyrics but the sonic quality of the two voices and they way in which they blend with the other orchestral colors.

    Virtuosos in Solos, Duos and Trios Will Friedwald 2011

  • In A Breed Apart, Haacke's simulates magazine ads for Leyland Vehicles, in which he appropriates actual Leyland ad copy and conjoins it with journalistic photographs of white military officers apprehending black South Africans during the South African government's apartheid rule.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • In Tomsk, asphalt conjoins gravel, gravel becomes mud mud becomes pond & frog, then potholes back to asphalt again.

    Black Swan, Pink PP-5: an Unfortunate Soviet-Style Cooperative Venture Marc Vincenz 2011

  • In A Breed Apart, Haacke's simulates magazine ads for Leyland Vehicles, in which he appropriates actual Leyland ad copy and conjoins it with journalistic photographs of white military officers apprehending black South Africans during the South African government's apartheid rule.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • A student's belief in God is strongly associated with whether he or she conjoins sex and love.

    Roger Friedland: God, Sex and Love on American Campuses Roger Friedland 2010

  • Slumdog Millionaire conjoins laughter and tears, bumbling con-artist kids and television moguls into a pastiche of emotions to test the most self-controlled viewer.

    Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire | /Film 2008

  • Contemporary trombonist Craig Harris takes Johnson at his word, and, accordingly, has assembled a program that conjoins two choirs: a quartet of Gospel singers (including LaTanya Hall, who's also serving as one of Michael Feinstein's "Dreidelettes" this month) and a brass choir of four trombones (among them Curtis Fowlkes of the Jazz Passengers).

    Warm Tunes for the Botti and Spirit Will Friedwald 2010

  • Statistically speaking, you have to wonder how often extraordinary confidence conjoins with exemplary character and how often it partners with immorality.

    Kathleen Reardon: How About Some of that Blago to Go? 2009

  • Strangers Also Dance is a remarkably immersive installation based on a poignant story that conjoins our Second Life universe with an alternate reality sweetly suffered by jellyfish that ventured too far from their warm gas giant home, becoming displaced in an environment that they find difficult but make the best of.

    A sculptural installation that has attained A State of Grace Bettina Tizzy 2009

  • Strangers Also Dance is a remarkably immersive installation based on a poignant story that conjoins our Second Life universe with an alternate reality sweetly suffered by jellyfish that ventured too far from their warm gas giant home, becoming displaced in an environment that they find difficult but make the best of.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009

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