intercalate

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“The messenger RNA from the vaccine does not form a triple helix, and it certainly doesn’t intercalate with the DNA to form a triple helix in any way,” Kuritzkes said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2022

To prevent this it was customary at regular intervals to intercalate days or months.

From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George

The era began on the 11th of July 552, and their year is vague, that is to say, it does not intercalate a day in February every fourth year, like the Julian calendar.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

As often as he meets with new groups, he must ascertain by superposition their age relatively to those first examined, and thus learn how to intercalate them in a tabular arrangement of the whole.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

But he was not born to live continually in outland parts, loving rather to intercalate fierce adventures between spells of home-keeping.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John