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

The viewer can even intercalate any person in the cast, even himself or herself, and deliver a character's lines.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

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

No, my dear cousin, it was in bad taste to say the least of it, and it was equally impolitic to intercalate such a demonstration into the usual and appropriate exercises of the week.

From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)

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