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intercalate

[in-tur-kuh-layt] / ɪnˈtɜr kəˌleɪt /










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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 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

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 Mihai Nadin

Perhaps here would be a fit place to intercalate a description of the native youth whose name forms the title-page to this strange historical romance.

From My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

Or yet again she'd intercalate a touch, An episode or version.

From Toward the Gulf by Edgar Lee Masters

Therefore, much lab work has been needed to devise new intercalated materials for imparting next-generation device functionalities.

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

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

Cells are attached to one another at intercalated disks.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

They considered those four years as intercalated; therefore believed them to be unfortunate, and called them u yail Jaab, as they did the five supplementary days of the year, to which they likened them.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens

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

It has always sought to bring the divine into human life by intercalating acts of God among facts of nature.

From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

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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