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

As often as he meets with new groups, he must ascertain by superposition their age relatively to those first examined, and thus learn how to intercalate them in a tabular arrangement of the whole.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

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

So in music it rejects a wholly perfect harmony, and for this reason musicians deliberately intercalate discordant sounds—what are technically called dissonances.

From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent)