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

So in music it rejects a wholly perfect harmony, and for this reason musicians deliberately intercalate discordant sounds—what are technically called dissonances.

From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent)

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

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

From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George

Or yet again she'd intercalate a touch, An episode or version.

From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee