interleave
verb
in·ter·leave
ˌin-tər-ˈlēv 
interleaved; interleaving
: to arrange in or as if in alternate layers
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Although commercially unsuccessful, Stretch inspired technologies used in inventions such as instruction pipelining and memory interleaving.
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IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2022
This interleaving of the numbers on the faces enables the intransitivity.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
Students can interleave new problems with related ones from preceding units.
—John Dunlosky, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2015
Her riddles interleave what reads like a sociological thesis told in free verse.
—Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
In his translation, Damion Searls has decided not to interleave the correspondence.
—Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021
The atmosphere is noir, and everywhere vice is interleaved with virtue.
—Emmanuel Iduma, The New York Review of Books, 2 June 2020
His ability to interleave aesthetic with lived social experience gives Mendelsohn’s writing great richness.
—Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
For example, the arrangement Ace, 5, 2, 3, 6, 7, 4 has two rising sequences interleaved: Ace, 2, 3, 4 and 5, 6, 7.
—Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 11 May 2018
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IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2022
This interleaving of the numbers on the faces enables the intransitivity.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
Students can interleave new problems with related ones from preceding units.
—John Dunlosky, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2015
Her riddles interleave what reads like a sociological thesis told in free verse.
—Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
In his translation, Damion Searls has decided not to interleave the correspondence.
—Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021
The atmosphere is noir, and everywhere vice is interleaved with virtue.
—Emmanuel Iduma, The New York Review of Books, 2 June 2020
His ability to interleave aesthetic with lived social experience gives Mendelsohn’s writing great richness.
—Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
For example, the arrangement Ace, 5, 2, 3, 6, 7, 4 has two rising sequences interleaved: Ace, 2, 3, 4 and 5, 6, 7.
—Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 11 May 2018
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“Interleave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interleave. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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