How to Use interpolation in a Sentence

interpolation

noun

• Copyright law is very much based on the idea of making copies — a sample is a copy, as is an interpolation of a melody.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 19 Apr. 2023
• Swift's interpolation is sure to join the ranks of memorable uses of the song.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
• Samples and interpolations are easy to catch, bars are shallow enough to get a middle-school locker room turnt.
  — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 16 Apr. 2026
• Michael is credited as a co-writer on the track due to the melodic interpolation.
  — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
• So a part of that, for me, was doing interpolation songs and also leaning in a couple of times to taking pitched songs.
  — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2022
• Their eyes might glaze over, or fixate on some small detail that can be pocketed for future interpolation.
  — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
• Owen would love to see the song emulate the chart run of his Mellencamp interpolation.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 5 July 2023
• At the time, when the interpolation concept was still largely untested in country, Owen wasn’t sure how it would be greeted.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
• The novel interpolation that nobody has ever done before is trivial for these machines.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2024
• Nothing is original then, so everything will be some sort of sample or interpolation.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 22 July 2024
• An interpolation is not the same as a sample, which involves an artist taking actual audio from an existing song.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• In a brief glitch, Tidal was only playing the isolated vocals of the interpolation, while the rest of the nearly two minute track was silent.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
• Per the rules of the award, songs that include a sample of interpolation are not eligible to be nominated.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 2 Feb. 2025
• An interpolation re-records or re-performs the original melody, leaving the master untouched.
  — Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• From that point on, the Marley sample fades into an echoey interpolation, a spectre of history.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• Note the color shading on the map is an interpolation & may not be representative in some locations.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• When paired with a custom interpolation algorithm, this tensor-train technique makes an intractable problem solvable at a faster rate.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
• Zinc, silver, lead, tin, and indium high grade outliers were constrained during interpolation on a per domain basis.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024
• The interpolation has also been removed from the song’s YouTube lyric video, but still appears on certain streaming versions.
  — Vulture, 3 Aug. 2022
• Nunn is also trying to use interpolation to correct blips in the seismology data, where errors can affect frame counts, time stamps, and data records.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2018
• An interpolation, by contrast, is a re-creation or interpretation of parts—sometimes just minor bits—of an existing song.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• Both Jarcho and Seastone also play Frank, a dumb but scary interpolation of Woyzeck.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• Not a cover, not a remix, not an interpolation—the original version, holding fast, in all of its booming and extraterrestrial synth glory.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• If this interpolation exists merely to inform or remind audiences that Black soldiers flew combat missions in the war, that’s a good enough reason.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• There was plenty more back-and-forth about the Renaissance track and the controversy, which kicked off after the album dropped last week featuring the interpolation.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2022
• Cowboy Carter works in a number of memorable samples and interpolations, which Billboard has compiled.
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2024
• Typically, the more integral the sample or interpolation is to the new song, the more leverage the sample or interpolation rights holders have.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2023
• From the interpolation of four variegating imperatives emerges a single prophetic voice.
  — Elaine L. Wang september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
• The new case highlights the distinction between sampling (the use of an actual recording of an artist’s performance) and interpolation (the use of the same music but re-performed by the new artists).
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2024
• My interpolations are only rough gauges since the chart has several generative AI apps shown, thus there are a lot of variabilities involved.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024