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
To prevent this it was customary at regular intervals to intercalate days or months.
From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George
To rectify this discrepancy we must intercalate 10 minutes by stopping the clock until it is 6 by the regulator.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
