intersperse
verb
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Intersperse comes from Latin interspersus, a combination of the prefix inter- ("between or among") and sparsus, the past participle of spargere, meaning "to scatter." Sparsus is also the source of sparse.
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
Left dry were fields of alfalfa, Bermuda grass and klein grass — in all more than 154,000 acres, or roughly a third of the valley’s irrigated land — forming a stark patchwork of brown fields interspersed with lush green crops.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
The retrospective, which currently occupies an entire floor of the museum, is organized non-chronologically such that Schütte’s early subversions of Minimalism and Conceptualism, dating back to the 1970s, are interspersed among his more recent creations.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
Typically such conferences consist of one lecture after another, each full of slides on molecular mechanisms and chemical pathways, interspersed with talks from patient advocates and caregivers.
—Emily Sohn, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Intersperse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intersperse. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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