interpolate
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To get around that issue, the BEA said that it will average September and November numbers to interpolate the October missing data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
This ability to interpolate also leads to highly accurate scene reconstructions when combined with multibounce lidar, Klinghoffer says.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024
“Her outstanding skill is an ability to interpolate amusing, semi-improvised commentary within songs, in a variety of musical styles, that turns them into personal testimony,” he wrote in 1987.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
As Swain explained, “we don’t have thermometers covering every square inch of the Earth,” so scientific groups use computer models to interpolate between data points, generating what is called a reanalysis.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2023
They were conceived by Beckford as three episodes complete within themselves, which he proposed to interpolate, in the manner of the “Arabian Nights,” into his famous Oriental story of “Vathek.”
From Tourcoing by Hilaire Belloc
He frequently interpolates lyrics from other rappers, quoting artists like J Hus and Skepta.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026
Beyoncé interpolates a bit of “Good Vibrations” on her hit “Cowboy Carter” album, while Lana Del Rey turned up with the band at last month’s Stagecoach country music festival in Indio.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024
He says that when he dropped the fiery “Dientes” in September, the ‘00s club-inspired Latino urbano track which interpolates Usher’s “Yeah!,” his fans were expecting reggaeton - his “original sound,” as he puts it.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
He says that when he dropped the fiery “Dientes” in September, the ’00s club-inspired Latino urbano track which interpolates Usher’s “Yeah!,” his fans were expecting reggaeton — his “original sound,” as he puts it.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
"At making a blithering idiot of myself," interpolates Beauvayse.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
Additional Vivaldi arias and ensembles are deftly interpolated among the scrambled “Seasons” movements, their words a combination of Ms. Ruhl’s new English texts and the original Italian and Latin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
It was “Rapper’s Delight,” which interpolated Chic’s hit “Good Times.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
Initially sampled by Aaliyah on 1994’s “Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number,” “What You Won’t Do for Love” turned into a foundational sample in hip-hop after Tupac Shakur interpolated it on 1997’s “Do for Love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
The track has also been interpolated several times - Danish dance artist Calvin attracted more than 23 million Spotify streams to his 2016 re-imagining of the song, titled Give U Up.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2023
And if its plain provisions shall now be disregarded, and these new doctrines interpolated in it, it will become as feeble and helpless a being as enemies, whether early or more recent, could possibly desire.
From The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met by A. D. Steight
Set to a throbbing synth bassline, the song teases fans by interpolating a line from her 1980s classic Into The Groove: "Out here on the dance floor, I feel so free."
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
“Old Dog” is a tribute to Mr. Cole’s home state, featuring rapper Petey Pablo interpolating his 2001 North Carolina anthem “Raise Up.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
Online, he has a reputation for interpolating corporate PR with nerdy puns and — in his words — “dank” memes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023
It was the perfect recipe for virality: one part cute kid plus one part delicious food, with a healthy sprinkling of catchy sound bites, perfect for interpolating.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
In introducing this new term spiritual world, observe, we are not interpolating a new factor.
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond
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