interpolated

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Note: Tracks for ships that lose signals are interpolated and may disappear or appear over land.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

“Everyday People” alone was covered by Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, the Staples Singers, the Supremes and Pearl Jam, and it was interpolated by Arrested Development on the 1992 hit “People Everyday.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

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

It should be interpolated there—if you will pardon me a moment—that the Government refused to accept Rerdell until he himself had pleaded guilty.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green