intercalate
Example Sentences
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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
In this case, the palaeontologist is called upon suddenly to intercalate about 800 species of Mollusca and Radiata, between the fauna of the Lower Lias and that of the Middle Trias.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
As this lunar year, like that of the Greeks, was shorter than the solar year, it had been necessary to intercalate an additional month, of varying length, in every alternate year.
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
Or yet again she'd intercalate a touch, An episode or version.
From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee
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
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