How to Use wild type in a Sentence

wild type

noun

• For the wild type, the response was uniform—and encouraging.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Sep. 2021
• Right off the bat, the wild type of Aralia cordata would seem to be in serious trouble.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 Apr. 2020
• Variant or wild type, hospitalized or not, the shots just work.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Sep. 2021
• All subjects showed weaker immunity to the variants compared to the wild type.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Sep. 2021
• Viruses that have the same collection of mutations are then given names to distinguish them from the wild type.
  — Tara C. Smith, SELF, 21 Jan. 2021
• Using a particular sequence of antibiotics can lead back to the wild type, 0000.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 26 May 2015
• The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has rid the world of types 2 and 3 wild type polioviruses.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 28 July 2022
• There is no strong evidence to suggest that any of these new variants is more deadly than the wild type, but researchers are worried about the risk of one or more of them evading existing vaccines.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2021
• The new variants could infect a greater number of people than the original wild type of the virus, which might infect only people who had never been infected before.
  — David Welch, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2021
• Tomasz is certainly a representative of their dark-and-wild type, toned down just slightly for The Hater’s more realistic setting.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 30 July 2020
• With the explosion in hydrangea popularity, somebody thought it a great idea to market the old, mostly fertile flowered, wild type.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2018
• After years of comparing the ancient seeds with wild types, Mueller has found two unmistakable signs of domestication: larger fruits and thinner fruit skins.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2018
• But in recent months, several new variants of the original virus (also called the wild type) have been spotted that appear to cause major changes in the way the pathogen acts, including alterations to its contagiousness.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2021
• From a social behavior standpoint, as Sanjuán and his colleagues pointed out in their paper, the wild-type VSV’s suppression of interferon qualifies as an altruistic act because in effect the wild type sacrifices itself for the cheater.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019
• Preliminary studies have also indicated that omicron tends to cause milder disease than the coronavirus wild type and other variants, though experts have warned that its highly transmissible nature still poses a risk to health care systems globally.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
• Furthermore, cVDPV can spread just as easily as the wild type, and communities with low vaccination rates and waning immunity are especially susceptible.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024