interpolates

verb

present tense third-person singular of interpolate
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. — 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
  1. inserts
  2. introduces
  3. intersperses
  4. injects
  5. interjects
Verb
  • Luz inserts the construction pole; Susana sniffs.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Once seated at the computer, the hacker inserts a USB drive or external hard drive.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
Definition of inserts
Verb
  • Within its first 10 minutes, the show introduces the Ingallses to a helpful Black doctor (based on a real person who also appears in the book) and a Native American family much like themselves.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 9 July 2026
  • The approach also introduces a computer architecture inspired by today’s digital computers that separates processing and memory.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026
Definition of introduces
Verb
  • 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.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 23 June 2026
  • 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.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2026
Definition of intersperses
Verb
  • For example, the adversary injects malicious instructions into an individual email or calendar invitation.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026
  • Formed in 2014, the six-woman band injects fresh new spirit and musical twists into the flamenco traditions its members embrace.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
Definition of injects
Verb
  • 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.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 May 2026
  • 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.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
Definition of interjects

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