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
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 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
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
