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
She asked that the new pieces be about 10 minutes long, and that they come in two or three fragments that she could intersperse with other scores without violating the meaning of the music.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
The same holds true for Peloton’s bootcamp classes, which intersperse floor exercises with cycling / running.
From The Verge ● Jan. 31, 2022
Rubin, being a columnist, does intersperse some opinion and analysis into her storytelling.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
If you have chisels to grind intersperse their grinding with plane bits, hatchet or other broad cutting tools, so as to prevent the stone from having grooves therein.
From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe
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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The campus of High Point University, a favorite of wealthy families, gives way to industrial pockets, where buzzing factories are interspersed with padlocked, graffitied plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
But the planning now is interspersed with prayers for a speedy post-surgery recovery that would allow him to make good on his plans.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The recipes are interspersed with stories from Kwon’s childhood in the store and illustrated spreads devoted to ingredients such as seaweed and tofu, explaining their varieties, particular virtues and best uses.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Each will exert an influence on our weather this week, which means spells of potentially hot sunshine interspersed with occasional bursts of rain.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
And with all the cold-weather rowing interspersed with days when they couldn’t row at all, the boys’ morale began to erode.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
He told stories of trying to be a normal dad to his children, who he'd been teaching to question authority, interspersing his performance with video clips.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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
Upchurch’s elegant interspersing of ethereal choral music by Heather Christian is one of this production’s most alluring features, along with costumes in eye-popping patterns by Enver Chakartash.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
Fire!” and interspersing his fire-alarm with brisk drummings of his crutch against the footboard.
From Glory and the Other Girl by Annie Hamilton Donnell
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