How to Use sub-Saharan in a Sentence
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Habitat loss has pushed the dama gazelle to the fringes of the sub-Saharan desert.
—Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
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Over a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, coups and power grabs roiled the region.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
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Most are Black and can trace their ancestry to parts of the world spanning sub-Saharan Africa through the Mediterranean.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
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Malaria is the leading cause of death among children in sub-Saharan Africa.
—Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
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The decrease in aid for sub-Saharan Africa from rich countries last year compared with 2021.
—Zlati Meyer, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
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The second sub-Saharan winning city has shown a steady climb since first appearing on the list three years ago.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
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Apartheid is something largely left in the past for the 70 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa that is under the age of 30.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
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These pumps could supply a third of the unmet water needs of small farmers, who produce most of the food across sub-Saharan Africa.
—Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
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Hippos, which are native sub-Saharan Africa, can reach weights of up to 4.5 tons and are known to be aggressive.
—Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2023
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That showed the most extreme rains keep happening in sub-Saharan Africa, at least through December 2021, the end of the data.
—CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
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In sub-Saharan Africa, 19 countries are unable to make debt payments or are at high risk of reaching that point.
—Mark Suzman, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2024
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For decades, Egypt has been a refuge for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa trying to escape war or poverty.
—Samy Magdy, Fortune Europe, 17 Mar. 2024
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Death counts have remained low throughout sub-Saharan Africa for most of the pandemic.
—Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
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The rates are a bit better for hepatitis C, with less success in sub-Saharan African countries.
—Danjuma Adda, STAT, 16 June 2024
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The rates are similar across the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, and people in this region are being affected at younger ages than those in other parts of the world.
—Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
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That's more than the domestic water use of over 330 million people in the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
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Two-thirds of this population live in sub-Saharan Africa.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2024
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Servals are medium-sized wild cats native to sub-Saharan Africa.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
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Currently, there is no licensed vaccine against the X strain, which may be the cause of meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 May 2023
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Niger is a key partner of the European Union in helping curb the flow of irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.
—Reuters, NBC News, 29 July 2023
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The world’s fastest growing music market is in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the main industry body.
—Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
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Its Goncourt was seen as a coup in the world of French letters, which had never before conferred its highest recognition on a writer from sub-Saharan Africa.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
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The award was given following Mpofu's 25 years of dedication to the sub-Saharan wild dogs.
—Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
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Similarly, when living in sub-Saharan Africa, keep in mind that Black cultures are wide and diverse.
—Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 8 Dec. 2023
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The study certainly doesn’t absolve Chinese firms of any wrongdoing in sub-Saharan Africa, and only deals with pay in two countries.
—Cassie Werber, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2023
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Some of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa have high rates of teenage pregnancies and low attendance at prenatal clinics.
—Evelyne Musambi, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
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Large decreases in youth underweight rates occurred in south and southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but those regions still have among the highest rates of underweight in the world, the study found.
—Elaine Chen Reprints, STAT, 29 Feb. 2024
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High-income countries have hundreds of bone marrow transplant centers, where stem cells can be wiped out and replaced, but sub-Saharan Africa has just three.
—Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 13 Mar. 2023
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Our people created one of the world’s greatest cultures collectively on the sub-Saharan African continent and in the New World.
—Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
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In many sub-Saharan African countries, clinics are understaffed and often have long queues of women waiting to be screened by doctors.
—Abdullahi Tsanni, STAT, 21 June 2023
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