interpolate
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To get around that issue, the BEA said that it will average September and November numbers to interpolate the October missing data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
“Defendants did not seek or receive permission to copy or interpolate any portion of ‘When I Was Your Man’ into ‘Flowers,’” the lawsuit adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
This ability to interpolate also leads to highly accurate scene reconstructions when combined with multibounce lidar, Klinghoffer says.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024
As Swain explained, “we don’t have thermometers covering every square inch of the Earth,” so scientific groups use computer models to interpolate between data points, generating what is called a reanalysis.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2023
They sought to interpolate resolutions expressing the original justice of the war.
From Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy
A song which interpolates a George Michael song was welcomed by the singer's estate, who said they were "delighted" when Swift approached them about including it on Father Figure.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
“Killah” interpolates a lick from Bowie’s “Fame”; “Perfect Celebrity” nods to NIN’s industrial funk; “Zombieboy” evokes the fizzy Champagne high that Chic figured out how to bottle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
He says that when he dropped the fiery “Dientes” in September, the ‘00s club-inspired Latino urbano track which interpolates Usher’s “Yeah!,” his fans were expecting reggaeton - his “original sound,” as he puts it.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Travitz appreciates that the band covers songs and interpolates snippets of others into its tunes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
"No one who has spent any time as a visitor to this country could help——" "Why then, tell me," interpolates the other, "what is at the back of your country's present resentful attitude toward America?"
From Getting Together by Ian Hay
Note: Tracks for ships that lose signals are interpolated and may disappear or appear over land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Olsen: The song itself is interpolated in the score during the movie, and there’s even a sequence of credit created using home video footage from some of the cast and crew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
It was “Rapper’s Delight,” which interpolated Chic’s hit “Good Times.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
You can call this thing a memoir — she spoke it, in 1986, to Kurt Loder, who interpolated it as literature.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
He continually thought of new things to be tried, and interrupted the course of the work with interpolated experiments which often robbed the preceding sequence of operations of their final result.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
Set to a throbbing synth bassline, the song teases fans by interpolating a line from her 1980s classic Into The Groove: "Out here on the dance floor, I feel so free."
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
“Old Dog” is a tribute to Mr. Cole’s home state, featuring rapper Petey Pablo interpolating his 2001 North Carolina anthem “Raise Up.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
Online, he has a reputation for interpolating corporate PR with nerdy puns and — in his words — “dank” memes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023
It was the perfect recipe for virality: one part cute kid plus one part delicious food, with a healthy sprinkling of catchy sound bites, perfect for interpolating.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
If a story is essentially weak, interpolating personal comment and unrelated matter generally will make it weaker; if it is essentially fine and significant, passages without bearing on the story will irritate the reader.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
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