interposed

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“I’m not a Nikki fan and I’m not a Pelosi fan and when I purposely interposed names they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki, from Tricky Nikki,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Such a note, seemingly interposed at random, echoes Whitman and DeFeo.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

Then a newsreel begins to play - it shows a montage of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, interposed with scenes of violence that marked the partition.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2022

On another occasion, Bishop Tutu interposed himself between protesters and police, producing an image of one diminutive priest standing firm against the armed might of the apartheid security machine.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2021

“I don’t mean any present at all, Joe,” I interposed.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens