How to Use clade in a Sentence

clade

noun

• The West African clade, which is what has been detected in the UK, is the milder of the two.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 May 2022
• Last spring, a clade known as D614G came to dominate the world.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2021
• The 2022 global outbreak was caused by the clade II strain, which is still present in the U.S. and elsewhere.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2024
• There are two clades of monkeypox: the West African clade and the Congo Basin clade.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 May 2022
• But one clade of reptiles was already adapted to the cold.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
• But the current outbreak involves the West African clade.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 May 2022
• People talk about between 1% to 10%, depending on the clade of the virus.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 4 June 2022
• The West African clade, the one now circulating around the world, is less severe.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• The strains will now be known as clade one (I) and clade two (II), respectively.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 15 Aug. 2022
• The outbreak, caused by clade II virus, did not kill anyone in the U.S. and ended within 1 month.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 16 Aug. 2024
• In the meantime, use of clade 1 and clade 2 will likely become entrenched.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022
• It has been seen to cause more severe disease than clade II and clade IIb viruses.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Aug. 2024
• One reason for the declaration is the emergence of a new virus strain last year, called clade 1b.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
• The less severe West African clade has a fatality rate of less than 1%.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 June 2022
• That clade first showed up in the United States in California.
  — USA Today, 10 Dec. 2020
• There is now a larger outbreak of a different clade in Africa.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Aug. 2024
• Both were found to be in the same group, or clade, that was primarily found in North America.
  — Author: Karen Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020
• With the fossils, researchers suspect that all pterosaur clades in the Jurassic evolved before the end of the Early Jurassic era.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• For now the epidemic of the clade Ib variant of Mpox is mostly confined to the African continent.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
• Cases of the strain, called clade 1, haven't been reported outside of central and eastern Africa at this time, the CDC said in its alert.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
• This is the first time an abelisaurid fossil has been found in the Bahariya Formation, and the oldest of its clade found in all of northeastern Africa.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
• Over millennia, the clade from Egypt and Southwest Asia began to dominate the world.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
• The scientists proposed calling the clades by neutral names, clade 1 for Congo Basin and clade 2 for West Africa.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 28 Nov. 2022
• The Congo Basin clade has a high case fatality rate, roughly 10%, in Africa.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 May 2022
• There are no efficacy data for IIa or clades Ia and Ib.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
• Eventually, the genes of the Egyptian and southwest Asian clades began to win out over others.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
• The virus is characterized by two genetic clades, I and II.
  — Manveena Suri and Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
• The West African clade is less fatal, with deaths occurring in about one percent of infections.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
• There were two types (or clades) of the infection observed—a Congo Basin clade (more severe and easily spread) and a West African clade (milder).
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 June 2022
• On 15 August, Sweden reported that a person who had traveled to Africa returned with a clade Ib mpox infection as well.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024