How to Use nonpregnant in a Sentence

nonpregnant

adjective
  • For the other, nonpregnant women, the death rate was 0.1.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • An earlier study did not find a higher risk of death among pregnant Covid patients, but the pregnant patients in the new study were 1.7 times more likely to die than nonpregnant patients.
    Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The Dobbs decision is also putting even nonpregnant women’s health in jeopardy.
    Lindsay Beyerstein, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • In fact, pregnant women were nearly three times as likely as nonpregnant women to require ICU care.
    Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The goal of the current study is to compare the olfactory sensitivity of pregnant women to that of nonpregnant women and men.
    Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2014
  • Experts say the safety of the new mRNA vaccines, which do not contain live virus, would probably be similar in pregnant and nonpregnant people.
    Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2021
  • In the brain cells of the stressed pregnant mice, relative to nonpregnant or unstressed animals, the DNA structure changed in a way that increased the likelihood of genes in certain regions becoming active.
    Esther Landhuis, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Pregnant women were also admitted to the intensive care unit at a higher rate, 1.5%, compared to nonpregnant women at 0.9%.
    Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 25 June 2020
  • Some nonpregnant reviewers sing its praises for supporting bad backs and easing arthritis, too.
    Jessica Kasparian, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Whale watchers estimate that 15 to 20 humpbacks, either juveniles or nonpregnant females, have not migrated south and have remained in the feeding grounds.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2018
  • But the agency has said e-cigarettes may help nonpregnant adult smokers if used as a complete substitute for all cigarettes and other smoked tobacco products.
    Talal Ansari, WSJ, 25 June 2019
  • The researchers also found that 14 percent of pregnant women reported a fever after their second vaccine dose, compared to 52 percent of nonpregnant women.
    New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • Research shows pregnant people who get the virus are more likely to be admitted to intensive care, receive invasive ventilation and die than their nonpregnant peers.
    Ali Swenson, ajc, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Of particular note, experts said, was the fact that the shots produced high levels of neutralizing antibodies, which can prevent the virus from entering cells, in both pregnant and nonpregnant women.
    New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • But a gigantic nonpregnant snake with a significant lump does pique her curiosity.
    Janet Maslin, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Pregnant women were admitted to an intensive care unit at a 1.5 percent greater frequency than nonpregnant women, at 0.9 percent.
    Fox News, 25 June 2020
  • The vaccine response for lactating women was similar to nonpregnant women after their booster dose.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Nonpregnant women who are bitten, infected and recover become immune — and can later have a baby safely, experts said.
    Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016
  • Yet pregnant giraffes appear to flee as fast as nonpregnant individuals.
    Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • After receiving the vaccine, pregnant women reported pain at the injection site more frequently, and headaches, chills and fevers less frequently than nonpregnant women, researchers said.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Finding solidarity and community can be helpful in the fight against weathering for pregnant and nonpregnant people alike.
    Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Pregnant women are getting vaccinated against the coronavirus at a lower rate than their nonpregnant peers, according to a new report released Tuesday, and the uptake is particularly low among those age 18 to 24 as well as Black and Hispanic women.
    Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
  • Pregnant women were over five times as likely to be hospitalized as nonpregnant women, 1.5 times as likely to be admitted to intensive care units, and 1.7 times as likely to require mechanical ventilation, the report said.
    Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2020
  • Based on very limited published data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and professional physicians’ groups have said that so far, pregnant women don’t appear more susceptible to catching the virus than nonpregnant women.
    Nina Martin, ProPublica, 1 Apr. 2020
  • But while nonpregnant adults have multiple options for combating fever and pain, for pregnant women, acetaminophen — also an ingredient in hundreds of other cold, flu, allergy and sleep medications — is considered the safest choice.
    New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Breastfeeding women boosted their response more effectively than pregnant women after the second dose, and the quality of their immune response more closely resembled that of nonpregnant women.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Our findings are consistent with studies of nonpregnant individuals, suggesting that adequate social support calms the body’s responses to stress.
    Rebecca Brooker, The Conversation, 12 May 2021
  • The federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act ensures that pregnant women who work for an employer of at least 15 people must be provided with the same benefits and accommodations as nonpregnant workers.
    Hallie Levine, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The resulting information along with initial safety data from nonpregnant individuals in clinical trials could then have been reviewed by experts to determine how and when the vaccines should be formally evaluated in pregnant women.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2021

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