interpolate
verb (used with object)
to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
have interpolated
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present perfectof interpolate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Aucoin and Ruhl have interpolated some unnecessary cuteness into a play already tipping toward twee.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
I knew your long story before you told it, but listened to hear what new element you might have interpolated since you saw the people at the Legation.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
Where I have interpolated remarks or descriptions within the titles I have enclosed them in brackets to distinguish them from Whitman's parenthesis.
From The Bibliography of Walt Whitman by Frank Shay
I am a faithful, though I am conscious, by no means a graceful translator, and although here and there I omit some passages, and shorten others, and disguise names, I have interpolated nothing.
From Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
And the bulk of the letters is so thoroughly Stoic and contrary to Jewish feeling, that a Jew is hardly likely to have interpolated them.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore
