How to Use attenuated in a Sentence

attenuated

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• Moore argued that, as with polio, the best approach would be to use an attenuated virus.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 28 July 2022
• Bars that serve food can resume business — albeit in an attenuated form — and those that don’t cannot.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2020
• Some vaccines take the old-fashioned route of using an attenuated virus.
  — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2020
• Against a long and attenuated trill of the viola, Mehretu’s backgrounds become a lurid green or mysterious blue and the black lines of the paintings start to look more querulous.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• But usually, there’s damage, and signals are able to get through but often very attenuated, very weak.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2023
• Those vaccine drops contain an attenuated version of the virus.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 25 July 2022
• This vaccine's formulation has a mixture of each of the three types of live attenuated poliovirus strains, according to GPEI.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 July 2022
• As of early evening, Washington’s temperatures had hovered for long hours in the lower 50s, and gray skies offered only an attenuated hint of the mere existence of the sun.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2021
• Although incidence of cVDPV is rare, the recent increase in cases as a result of mutation in the live attenuated virus is cause for concern.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Vaccines that contain a live attenuated virus, like those for measles-mumps-rubella or shingles, are not recommended to pregnant women, according to the CDC.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2020
• The oral attenuated vaccine, on the other hand, is capable of preventing transmission as well as disease.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• The inactivated polio vaccine, for safety reasons, has also been given before one made with live attenuated virus, which can sometimes cause the disease if the virus mutates.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2021
• In contrast to live attenuated viruses, mRNA vaccines cannot revert to a pathogenic form or mix with circulating pathogens.
  — David Verhoeven, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• More attenuated and open-ended than his abstractions from the 1970s, with their sometimes intensely pulsing color, these canvases are uncommonly gentle, as if sharp edges had been filed off.
  — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
• Voroshilova then ran large field trials of vaccines composed of attenuated enteroviruses.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 18 Nov. 2022
• But some other countries vaccinate with live attenuated virus that, on rare occasion, can mutate and spread via vaccinated people, who excrete it through their feces.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
• In a standard vaccination, a person receives an attenuated or dead version of a microorganism to spur them to produce antibodies (against, for example, the virus that causes smallpox).
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2010
• But when the worst happens, the film overestimates the depths of emotional resonance earned by giving pretty much every family member their own attenuated scene of tearful histrionics.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
• And that aforementioned plot is a very attenuated, listless creature, telling a murky — in every sense — tale of political intrigue and municipal power struggles that refuses to be resolved or reveal any mysteries by the end.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
• Leaving Picasso was an attenuated process, the relationship ending in 1953.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• Sometimes public funding makes an indirect or attenuated contribution to a drug’s invention, say through public funding of basic scientific research.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• An attenuated lethality that made interventions to stop it nearly impossible to calibrate.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 28 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024