How to Use imprinting in a Sentence

imprinting

noun

• The process is completed with the imprinting of a small red heart on the lower right-hand corner of the license.
  — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2020
• That is when 400 million years of munch-time imprinting takes over.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
• The yellow, black and chocolate labs will be trained for three weeks using a process called odor imprinting.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2020
• The goose’s imprinting on the fox was, after all, a perfectly normal response.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2020
• Something about mothers and children, and the unmothered, and human frailty, and imprinting.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
• So whether a pack of raptors would be best trained by alpha dominance, by nurturing imprinting, or both, is an open question.
  — Robin George Andrews, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2015
• But neither Surani nor Solter could explain why, in the larger scheme of reproduction, imprinting occurred.
  — Paul Raeburn, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2014
• Through imprinting, Frank has bonded with her for life, has no fear of people and always will identify with humans instead of other sparrows.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 23 Sep. 2020
• Still, Hensley isn’t worried about imprinting — or at least not among people who have been vaccinated with mRNA vaccines.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 19 Apr. 2021
• Something about friendship, which can and should provide support and understanding and company and a different sort of imprinting.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
• Evidence is building that this phenomenon, also known as immune imprinting, is at work in Covid-19.
  — Denise Roland, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• This imprinting primarily occurs by the age of seven, laying the foundation for our belief systems that continue to evolve throughout our lives.
  — Anna Tan, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• To get there, researchers are using technologies such as nanoparticles and molecular imprinting, which create cavities in a polymer structure that match the size and shape of a specific drug.
  — Emily Mullin, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
• Immunologists say a vaccine against two strains may not be better than a single strain shot because of a phenomenon called immune imprinting.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
• The fact that researchers can discern bilingualism at an early age indicates that the brains of monolingual and bilingual babies are subject to unique and different patterns of neuronal imprinting.
  — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2020
• Distance is a measurement set early in life, the landmarks of childhood imprinting on our geographic sensibilities forever, even as the magnitude of the world grows and shrinks around us.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
• This was intended to show whether the shot selectively boosted antibodies to flu strains the mice had in their immune memories, a phenomenon called imprinting.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 22 Dec. 2022
• Remarkably, imprinting has been used to teach reintroduced birds their migratory path.
  — Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2012
• There may be ways to circumvent immune imprinting — perhaps with a second dose of a bivalent vaccine that builds on the immune response after the first, much as the second dose of the initial vaccine series cemented protection.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• No mammals are known to reproduce this way because unlike simpler organisms, mammals rely on a process called genomic imprinting.
  — Corryn Wetzel, National Geographic, 25 Aug. 2020
• This finding rules out rapid postnatal learning, such as filial imprinting, as a mechanism for this visual proclivity.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2017
• Perhaps my appreciation of this car is the result of generational imprinting.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 15 July 2022
• Inoue and his team studied the histones (basic protein building blocks in chromosomes) that send epigenetic instructions to egg cells in a process called genomic imprinting.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2022
• Prior research to force mammals to reproduce via parthenogenesis have failed because of genomic imprinting, per a statement.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
• Specifically, researchers wanted to see if the vaccine could override a phenomenon known as original antigenic sin, which is sometimes called imprinting.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 24 Nov. 2022
• Further tests revealed which genes were abnormally activated by the lack of epigenetic imprinting when the placentas were enlarged.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2022
• The reason, Ho explains, is a phenomenon called immunological imprinting, in which repeatedly exposing the immune system to one strain—in this case, the ancestral one—skews the immune response in that direction.
  — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 23 May 2023
• Genomic imprinting is epigenetic, meaning that the underlying DNA sequence doesn't change.
  — Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2012
• Because of a biological phenomenon called imprinting, preliminary research suggests the bivalent vaccine elicits a stronger immune response to the ancestral variant than to the newer variants.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• What is original antigenic sin or immunological imprinting?
  — Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024