How to Use biological warfare in a Sentence

biological warfare

noun
  • At this point, that might be the only way to protect the world from extinction-level biological warfare.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 8 May 2018
  • There is no antidote — and that has made the Marburg virus a prime candidate for biological warfare.
    Lucy Cooke, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
  • There is no antidote - and that has made the Marburg virus a prime candidate for biological warfare.
    Lucy Cooke, ajc, 3 July 2018
  • There is a killer bug buzzing around Australia which scientists are breeding as a biological warfare agent.
    Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • This was the start of Pontiac’s War, a series of sieges and battles that lasted a full year and ended with the British using smallpox blankets to commit biological warfare against the natives.
    Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • It's set several decades from now, long after a breakdown in the global order brought an end to the nation-state and climate change and biological warfare killed hundreds of millions.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2017
  • If the virus is ever deployed as biological warfare, the fruit bat’s super-immunity may hold the answer to preventing its spread.
    Lucy Cooke, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
  • If the virus is ever deployed as biological warfare, the fruit bat's super-immunity may hold the answer to preventing its spread.
    Lucy Cooke, ajc, 3 July 2018
  • But this pandemic should be a stark reminder that the risk of biological warfare must be taken seriously, and preparations be made for an even worse-case scenario.
    Abraar Karan, STAT, 22 Aug. 2021
  • In the biological warfare of pest control, there’s certainly more than one way to attack a mosquito, public health officials say.
    Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • Disguised as an epidemic prevention and water purification department, the unit functioned through the end of the war as a testing ground for agents of biological warfare.
    Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • The novel coronavirus is not an ideal biological warfare agent, experts say, because its impact on the United States and adversaries alike cannot be controlled.
    Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Many in China also perceive the United States as a potential biological warfare threat.
    Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Although a few governments and criminals have made low-tech attempts to contaminate water, food, or clothing, there has been no state-on-state biological warfare since the Second World War.
    Elisabeth Eaves, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
  • But at the same time, Langmuir was growing increasingly preoccupied by the threat of biological warfare.
    Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • But others pushed exaggerated or false claims, like the unproven theory that the virus was engineered in a lab as part of a Chinese biological warfare strategy.
    Kevin Roose, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2020
  • This is purportedly the result of biological warfare on the part of a native intelligent species known as Spackle, who resented the arrival of the colonizers.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Oleg, an idealist, committed treason in season four to protect the world from biological warfare.
    Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 24 May 2018
  • Many people in China also perceive the United States as a potential biological warfare threat.
    Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Worryingly, Russia has also threatened to break the taboo on the first use of nuclear weapons and has the capability to carry out chemical and biological warfare.
    Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
  • The Pentagon’s research arm wants a better suit for those responding to chemical and biological warfare attacks.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
  • In the case of pandemics or biological warfare, there will likely be both a surge in demand for important goods and a simultaneous disruption of production and delivery.
    Smithsonian, 22 Jan. 2018
  • In the case of pandemics or biological warfare, there will probably be a surge in demand for important goods and a simultaneous disruption of production and delivery.
    Morten Wendelbo, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Did mosquitos inspire the idea of biological warfare in general?
    Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 5 Aug. 2019
  • People miss their public pleasures, like checking their texts during movies and coughing indoors without being suspected of biological warfare.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Existing chemical and biological warfare suits are difficult to wear and lack some protective features.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Syrians said the rain of 105 missiles had caused no deaths or toxic chemical clouds, and hit only a handful of military facilities that the Trump administration said were used to research, produce or stockpile chemical and biological warfare agents.
    Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Chernow noted that British generals released infected civilians and captives towards American lines at the siege of Boston and at Yorktown in a ghoulish pre-industrial version of biological warfare.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 July 2021
  • Burgdorfer himself was involved in biological warfare programs that involved using blood-sucking insects, including fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes, as vectors for the transmission of human diseases.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2019
  • Today, Gruinard is visited by shepherds and hunters, no longer an incipient experiment in the potentials of biological warfare.
    Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2017

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