sublethal

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Recent Examples of sublethal Documenting often-invisible, sublethal effects in wild animals that are definitively linked to plastic itself has remained elusive. Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023 But subtler, sublethal effects, like those described above for DDT, could be much farther-reaching. Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023 The third is that this dosage was sublethal, just to send a message. Ellen Barry and Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018 There’s a growing body of evidence, too, that neonicotinoids may have sublethal effects, says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a bee researcher at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the new study. Lindsey Konkel, National Geographic, 26 July 2016 There’s a growing body of evidence, too, that neonicotinoids may have sublethal effects, says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a bee researcher at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the new study. National Geographic, 26 July 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sublethal
Adjective
  • Which is one of the principle food sources for blue-green algae, and other toxic algae.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement Reawakening the organ pipes The voice of Notre Dame’s great organ hasn’t been heard in public since the blaze coated the nearly 8,000 pipes with toxic dust released when the lead roofing burned.
    John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • On July 30, Ray updated her fans again, revealing her diagnosis of infective endocarditis, a severe heart infection.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 31 July 2024
  • Hospitalizations for strokes related to opioid use and infective endocarditis, a life-threatening infection of the heart’s lining and valves, increased in people under 45 from 2006 through 2015, coinciding with the opioid epidemic’s onset, the authors added.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 23 May 2024
Adjective
  • Certainly, a highly virulent respiratory virus could have a major global impact.
    Dave Wessner, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Recently officials announced the disturbing news that bird flu has infected a pig in Oregon, a troubling development that health experts say could mean a more transmissible and virulent virus.
    Seema Policepatil, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • But left unchecked, fear of failure becomes poisonous.
    Mark Kane, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But the film’s poisonous reviews and disastrous box office all but torpedoed her Oscar hopes this year, and the film was shut out in Monday’s Globe nominations.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Though, bird flu virus levels have been found at high levels in raw milk and health officials believe raw milk is infectious to humans.
    Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The energy of Nord’s workforce is infectious—something Tomas Okmanas, Nord’s CEO and cofounder, witnesses daily.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Not all of the longer-range Ioniq 5s can go that far; as EV aficionados know, fitting bigger wheels to one does deleterious things to its range.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The state would wield a deleterious influence on public education, with a rounded civic understanding of Israeli democracy replaced by a more baldly nationalist and illiberal one.
    Ilan Z. Baron, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Another growing problem is the use of harmful flame retardants in the plastic enclosures around batteries.
    Arlene Blum, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • While his anti-vaccine views have drawn widespread criticism, his stance on combating chronic disease by ridding the nation’s food supply of harmful chemicals and ingredients broadly aligns with efforts from both sides of the political aisle and has been praised by leading public health experts.
    Nik Popli, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Academic opportunists the past week showed once more how pernicious, naïve misinformation can catch fire and consume the truth, especially when dressed with the veneer of academic credibility.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Most of us can agree the world is in a perilous state, with natural disasters multiplying, pernicious new viruses continually emerging, the planet steadily overheating, and wars raging in constant rotation.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023

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“Sublethal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sublethal. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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