interzone
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a word derived from
zone.
zonenounany continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The temperature lies outside the danger zone.
Example Sentences
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Where “Will” is told with a straightforward directness, confronting practical realities, “Nightshift” is a film of ambiguous evocation, existing in an interzone between waking, dreaming and nightmare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
The result was “Spiral,” 52 minutes in the interzone, a cosmic axis where all points intersect, beholden to neither contemporary trends nor febrile nostalgia.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021
The cells at the center of the interzone die, thus producing the joint cavity.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Jim Holt, an elegant and witty writer comfortably at home in the problem’s weird interzone between philosophy and scientific cosmology, sets out in search of such answers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2012
This was supposedly the old haunt of Burroughs, Bowles and all the Beats who gathered around them during the notorious "interzone" period.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2010