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 app takes bits from Anchor and bits from Clubhouse — users can host DJ sets, like they would a radio show, and intersperse songs with talk.
From The Verge ● Oct. 26, 2021
As the 10 senators sat around a wide table, the three White House officials would intersperse themselves among them, allowing for side conversations on what senators were hearing from constituents back home.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 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 C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater
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
Paint the Night is a vibrant, high-energy show that intersperses dance, tech and the requisite amount of evening sparkle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
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
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 centerpiece is the three minutes where Travis calmly narrates the plane crash interspersed with him drumming, amid flames, in a way that captures each emotional beat of what he went through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
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
In interspersed interviews, Knoxville and his pals reminisce about their time together with a distinct wistfulness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Each one charted the acceleration of the cancer in her body and the growth of the baby, interspersed with notes on her research.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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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
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
Panteley and the old woman sat side by side at Yegorushka's feet, talking in hissing whispers and interspersing their speech with sighs and yawns.
From The Bishop and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
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