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

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

From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee

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 Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

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

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