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
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)
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
Or yet again she'd intercalate a touch, An episode or version.
From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee
Unfortunately, it's difficult to identify in advance which of the many possible intercalated materials are stable, which necessitates a lot of trial-and-error lab work in product development.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
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
Therefore, much lab work has been needed to devise new intercalated materials for imparting next-generation device functionalities.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
The remainder of the intercalated disc is composed of desmosomes.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The difficulty with regard to the month is to know how the commencement of the Jewish year was fixed—in what years an extra month was intercalated before Nisan.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 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 old practice of intercalating a month was of course dropped.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey
The Vicar, dishevelled and desperate, intercalating spasmodic remorse and apprehension with broken explanations of the Theory of Etiquette.
From The Wonderful Visit by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Thus, after intercalating in year one, they intercalated again in year four, instead of in year five.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey
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
