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 each gallery, timelines intersperse events in the artist’s life with news of the larger world, then and now.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 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
Some passages I have yet spared, which may relieve the labor of verbal searches, and intersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty deserts of barren philology.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Eliot, Charles William
But he offers the trenchant point that it intersperses high-intensity plays with huddled breaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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
Patel also intersperses blink-and-you’ll-miss-them POV shots, further aligning us with the Kid’s experience and adding to the dizzying, hallucinatory effect of some of these fights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
A vast number of caves and rock shelters intersperses the mountains.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024
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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Anecdotes and analysis are interspersed with photos of all sorts of sofas and couches, calling into question ideas about where and how we find respite and support — or not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
This is gardening on an epic scale, with vast stalls showing every type of flowers, interspersed with gardening equipment and pit-stops of champagne every few yards.
From BBC ● May 18, 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
The administration has published a heavy stream of video on social media showing war footage, interspersed with pop-culture media such as imagery from the videogame franchise “Call of Duty.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Here there were wide spaces interspersed with thickets and huge trees and the trend of the ground led him up as the forest opened.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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Streams that began as focused chess sessions gradually loosened into something more freewheeling, with Raina interspersing gameplay with jokes and self-deprecating commentary, often engaging directly with the live chat.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Auster adds more color to the proceedings by interspersing his narrative with samples of his characters’ autobiographical writings: Anna’s stories and Baumgartner’s account of his trip “through the bloodlands of Eastern Europe.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
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
Many tried to present themselves as real people by interspersing Iranian poetry and photos of Persian food between political messages.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
He also described his impressions of Italian and Scandinavian travel, interspersing his more general observations with linguistic details, as is the case in all his works.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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