intersperse
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While Hartman believes it’s best to intersperse the music between races, it’s not the only way to do things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
In the fall of 2023, the museum will intersperse about a dozen of Hendricks’s portraits among its own holdings in an exhibition at its temporary home, Frick Madison.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
The same holds true for Peloton’s bootcamp classes, which intersperse floor exercises with cycling / running.
From The Verge ● Jan. 31, 2022
When ready to make the drink, intersperse the watermelon ice cubes with regular ice and cucumber wheels.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021
The simplest plan will be to give a few instances of the different kinds, and to intersperse among them such further explanations as may seem necessary.
From Clairvoyance by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
Mr. Dillon intersperses his more academic chapters with occasional descriptions of Shanghai’s neighborhoods, temples and shops as they appear today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Egoyan intersperses scenes set in the present with home video footage of Jeanine as a child, shot by her own father, blindfolded and doing strange dances in the woods.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
A vast number of caves and rock shelters intersperses the mountains.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024
The film intersperses scenes of Hana’s budding love for Lt.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
A Child of Our Time intersperses quasi-operatic narrative passages with arrangements of African-American spirituals, as Bach had done with Lutheran hymn-chorales in his oratorios on the passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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In interspersed interviews, Knoxville and his pals reminisce about their time together with a distinct wistfulness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The walkways will be interspersed with plazas, small parks and exercise stations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
“Lorne” walks viewers through the Monday-to-Saturday schedule, interspersed with memories from cast members, writers, producers and NBC execs past and present.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
Right now the site is a lattice of hulking steel frames covering an area the size of 30 football pitches, interspersed with cranes, earth movers and drainage channels.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
At the grave site, standing with Ernest, Mollie could hear the old people’s song of death, their chants interspersed with weeping.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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The book bristles with insight and originality, interspersing Vara’s more journalistic expositions with excurses and fragments curated from the author’s expansive digital life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
With a growing online fanbase, he started interspersing TikTok cover versions with snippets of originals.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
As the movie travels through the mid-’90s into the early 2000s, Rockwell chronicles a rapidly changing New York during the Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg mayorships, accented by interspersing real audio clips and speeches.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
It reshaped the landscape of action storytelling with its revolutionary third-person perspective and its interspersing of loud, chaos with more soothing, relaxing moments.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023
Fire!” and interspersing his fire-alarm with brisk drummings of his crutch against the footboard.
From Glory and the Other Girl by Donnell, Annie Hamilton
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