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How to use the word virulent in a Sentence?

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The PRC is motivated by a virulent communist ideology with its fundamental disregard for the rights of any individual. Add to this that the PRC is actively building up its military with increasingly advanced weapons systems. This, coupled with its nuclear capabilities, leaves no doubt that the PRC represents a threat that is like no other in the current geopolitical makeup of the world.

Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Early, largely anecdotal evidence suggests Omicron may be less virulent than Delta. This would be good news if confirmed, in principle.

Francois Balloux

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This virus is more infectious and virulent, more children are reporting high-grade fever compared to last year. We have 35-year olds with pneumonia in intensive care, which was not happening last year.

Dhiren Gupta

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This virus is more infectious and virulent .... We have 35-year olds with pneumonia in intensive care, which was not happening last year, the situation is chaotic.

Dhiren Gupta

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The result of these experiments is a virus that is highly virulent in humans but is sufficiently different that it no longer resembles the original bat virus, because the mutations are acquired randomly by selection, there is no signature of a human gene jockey, but this is clearly a virus still created by human intervention.

Nikolai Petrovsky

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Our ancestors lived in a different environment and had a different lifestyle and diet, and it is therefore interesting to find out how this is reflected in their microbiome,' it can help us understand how pathogens have evolved and spread over time, and what makes them particularly virulent in a given environment. At the same time, it may help predict how a pathogen will behave in the future, and how it might be contained or eradicated.

Hannes Schroeder

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Former Vice PresidentJoseph R. Bidenassailed PresidentTrump’s supporters during a speech Saturday at the annual Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington, lamenting that ‘virulent people’ and the ‘dregs of society’ still had a friend in the White House.

The Washington Times

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Many outbreaks linked to poultry, eggs and meat can be traced back to farms where intensive production practices can lead to [ the ] spread of highly virulent pathogens.

Catherine Donnelly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

North Korea, for decades, has had the virulent anti-U.S. propaganda, north Korea’s all stopped.

Gordon Chang

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We have demonstrated that two of the three most serious banana fungal diseases have become more virulent by increasing their ability to manipulate the banana’s metabolic path ways and make use of its nutrients, this parallel change in metabolism of the pathogen and the host plant has been overlooked until now and may represent a ‘ molecular fingerprint ’ of the adaptation process.

Mr Stergiopoulos

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This is really fascinating for understanding mechanistically another way to acquire genes that encode factors that make it virulent.

John Mekalanos

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

Olive Schreiner

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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