How to Use biotic in a Sentence

biotic

adjective

• Poppi is a carbonated canned drink infused with apple cider vinegar and fruit juices meant to provide a pre-biotic boost.
  — Edward Medeles, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2021
• All meat and eggs in Plates are hormone- and anti-biotic-free.
  — Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022
• When the researchers added biotic sounds, from living beings, to the water sounds, people liked them even more.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
• On the bottom of just about everyone’s list are fungi, the Rodney Dangerfields of the biotic world.
  — Richard Schiffman, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• That pre-biotic material could be a recipe for life in the subsurface pools.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 21 Apr. 2022
• The former are biotic and the latter are abiotic variables which shape the diversity and topology of the tree of life.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2011
• Unlike Guardians, Cloud Striders have a limited lifespan of around 10 years due to a biotic implant that shortens their lives.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 16 Feb. 2023
• Hoover makes several claims to show that a non-biotic origin for these structures is very unlikely.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2011
• Now the closest look yet at events 252 million years ago is linking those eruptions even more closely not only to the biotic cataclysm in the sea but also to the mass extinction on land.
  — Sciencenow, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2011
• Kooyman said—an area that serves as a sort of biotic bomb shelter where species can survive geologic upheaval.
  — Maddie Stone, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2020
• The time young sharks spend in nurseries depends on both biotic and abiotic factors that aren't fully understood.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• Forest fires are capable of destroying homes of animals and could kill more biotic life.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Aug. 2017
• Wheat, rice, corn, barley, rye and oats are some of the grasses that can be self-pollinated but also utilize biotic and abiotic (wind) pollinators.
  — Jodi Bay, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
• As Wandel posits, biotic planets like ours may be exceedingly common in the universe, and intelligent species studying them would not pay a whole lot of attention to just one more green and living world.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 21 Dec. 2022
• But more importantly, the trail traverses a distinct series of biotic communities, from desert scrub to desert grassland to pine-oak woodland.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2020
• Things like eating a macro-biotic vegan diet or burning sage, keeping crystals, reading tarot cards or your horoscope.
  — Elizabeth Loga, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2021
• Others have slid into biotic civil war, with more savage outbreaks and harsher suppression.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2013
• While observed on redcedars experiencing dieback, biotic factors like insects and fungi were estimated by researchers to be secondary to drought as the leading cause of tree illness and death.
  — Nathan Gilles, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2022
• The biotic and abiotic elements that render Socotra so unique have existed and evolved there for millions of years, many remaining effectively unchanged in this time.
  — Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
• The expedition’s findings were later written up in 13 volumes that provide a biotic baseline still referenced today.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021
• The multiple lines of evidence discovered in this study are essential to reconstructing the causes of post-impact biotic response and extinction patterns.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• However, what happens when the greatest wrong is not perpetrated by individuals unschooled in the land ethic, but rather by the government of the United States, destroying the biotic community on a scale unimaginable by mere humans?
  — Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2021
• But the competition, which Wilson said later turned to friendship, accelerated his ambition to discover the common biotic thread in complex societies.
  — Patricia Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2021
• But the competition, which Dr. Wilson said later turned to friendship, accelerated his ambition to discover the common biotic thread in complex societies.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
• The classes do studies on biotic and abiotic components and activities designed for general observations in the school's outdoor classroom spaces.
  — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023
• The brain is a biotic organ, embedded in a continuum of natural causes and connections that together contribute to our biological minds.
  — Joe Peterburger, National Geographic, 17 Mar. 2018
• The probiotic in our pro-biotic dietary supplement has been biotransformed by gut bacteria into active metabolites for human health.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 June 2022
• Ecological change provokes speciation and extinction, but our knowledge of the interplay among the biotic and abiotic drivers of macroevolution remains limited.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2011
• Our pro-biotic dietary supplement is composed of Indian pomegranate punicalagins that have been biotransformed by gut bacteria into potent metabolites for human health.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2022
• Our pro-biotic dietary supplement is made with Indian pomegranate punicalagins that have been biotransformed by gut bacteria into powerful metabolites for human health.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 June 2022

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024