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
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 John Buchan
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 Sir Charles Lyell
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 Hutton Webster
Or yet again she'd intercalate a touch, An episode or version.
From Toward the Gulf by Edgar Lee Masters
This work is an important step forward in minimizing the laborious lab work that's typically required to prepare intercalated materials.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
Although many synthetic methods are available for preparing intercalated materials, researchers have had no reliable means of predicting which host-guest combinations are stable.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
"Other computational models in the literature lack a physical basis or validation against unknown intercalated compounds."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
This line is called an intercalated disc: it assists in passing electrical impulse efficiently from one cell to the next and maintains the strong connection between neighboring cardiac cells.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In parts of western Russia Old Red Sandstone fossils are found in beds intercalated with others containing marine fauna of the Devonian facies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
When they link up, they form intercalating discs that allow the cells to communicate with each other and begin contracting in synchrony.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The Vicar, dishevelled and desperate, intercalating spasmodic remorse and apprehension with broken explanations of the Theory of Etiquette.
From The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The old practice of intercalating a month was of course dropped.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart
The regulations of Caesar were not at first sufficiently understood; and the pontiffs, by intercalating every third year instead of every fourth, at the end of thirty-six years had intercalated twelve times, instead of nine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
Thus, after intercalating in year one, they intercalated again in year four, instead of in year five.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart
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