Meaning & use
Interspersed
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Scattered or placed here and there among other things; distributed at intervals throughout something.
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The garden had wildflowers interspersed among the rows of vegetables.
Her lecture interspersed personal anecdotes with hard scientific data.
A note on using this word
"Interspersed" comes from the Latin "interspergere," combining "inter-" (among) and "spargere" (to scatter).
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