as in inserts
to put among or between others
interpolated a new paragraph into the online encyclopedia article
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Recent Examples of interpolates
Part of that creative control was creating a 13-track LP that serves as a soundtrack to his life and interpolates viral Internet videos, pop-culture classics, and soulful collaborators.
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Adelle Platon,
VIBE.com,
24 June 2026
In the title track, Lizzo interpolates two elder singer-songwriters, Missy Elliott and Meredith Brooks, who each flipped the slur into biting hooks in the late nineties.
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Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
11 June 2026
The score by Amine Bouhafa and Isabelle Laudenbach — the director’s sister, and also an accomplished flamenco guitarist — deftly interpolates scraps and strains of Bizet’s original compositions, stripped of operatic excess and given a folky lilt.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
31 May 2026
The track interpolates Ennio Morricone’s theme song from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
20 Feb. 2026
Jeremiah Fraites’ score beautifully melds with and interpolates these iconic songs.
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Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
22 Oct. 2025
Adelle Platon,
VIBE.com,
24 June 2026
In the title track, Lizzo interpolates two elder singer-songwriters, Missy Elliott and Meredith Brooks, who each flipped the slur into biting hooks in the late nineties.
—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
11 June 2026
The score by Amine Bouhafa and Isabelle Laudenbach — the director’s sister, and also an accomplished flamenco guitarist — deftly interpolates scraps and strains of Bizet’s original compositions, stripped of operatic excess and given a folky lilt.
—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
31 May 2026
The track interpolates Ennio Morricone’s theme song from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
20 Feb. 2026
Jeremiah Fraites’ score beautifully melds with and interpolates these iconic songs.
—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interpolates
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Luz inserts the construction pole; Susana sniffs.
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Once seated at the computer, the hacker inserts a USB drive or external hard drive.
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Artificial intelligence now introduces a different challenge by demonstrating that many traditional legal tasks can be performed faster and more efficiently by machines.
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For coffee drinkers, the program introduces 52 distinct flavor releases over the course of the year.
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The visual intersperses footage from a trip the pair took to Iceland with clips of their Upstate New York home, a fitting backdrop to Sprague’s spectral vocals and wandering synth arcs.
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Captured over four back-to-back performances in Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena in July 2025, the nearly two-hour movie intersperses most of her set list with endearing snippets of behind-the-scenes footage from the day leading up to the show.
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That injects a bit of uncertainty, but there’s some expectation that Comcast could structure the deal in a way that control of NBC’s broadcast stations does not transfer.
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The study introduces a novel fabrication method that injects a crosslinking agent during membrane formation to create highly efficient separating layers.
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Perhaps that’s why Lucy was able to ignore the signs for so long, some of which the audience is given the chance to see in a dark and disquieting flashback that Kreutzer cleverly interjects during the movie’s second act.
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DiMarco is a perfect fit as the besotted but fragile boy-man groom while Jason Leigh interjects hazy weirdness while Levine, Wilbusch, Birney, Crome and Fraser keep our suspicions about them on high.
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“Interpolates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interpolates. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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