lace
noun
a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Trying to interlace, like a clutched desperate prayer, but again, I feel like the hands I am lacing are not my own, like I have borrowed them from a twelve-fingered monster.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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