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intersperse

[in-ter-spurs] / ˌɪn tərˈspɜrs /


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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

You can intersperse more prolonged bouts with quick bursts, whether downsizing clothing or a tool drawer.

From Seattle Times Apr. 21, 2023

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

They intersperse the science with accounts of what forests have traditionally meant to the peoples who live in them.

From Washington Post Apr. 1, 2022

Monomaniacs intersperse their writings with illustrations and symbols.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Lombroso, Gina

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

A vast number of caves and rock shelters intersperses the mountains.

From Science Daily Feb. 6, 2024

“L.A. Interchanges” intersperses personal memories with a much-needed roll call of bars, clubs, publications, organizations and individuals whose names still haven’t made it into mainstream LGBTQ+ histories of Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 16, 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

The walkways will be interspersed with plazas, small parks and exercise stations.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 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

These passages are interspersed with photos of bright sun, yellow sand, blue water and vibrantly colored foods.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

He was in a narrow street, with a few dark little shops interspersed among dwelling houses.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

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

Wildhack then introduced Boeheim, who received a 20-second standing ovation and spoke for 11 minutes, interspersing his comments with humor, characteristic defiance and uncharacteristic emotion.

From Seattle Times Mar. 10, 2023

The latter had now taken on its autumnal dress of yellow, and, interspersing the dark green of the spruce, gave an exceedingly beautiful effect to the landscape.

From The Long Labrador Trail by Wallace, Dillon




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