How to Use bioweapon in a Sentence

bioweapon

noun
  • The only firm conclusion was that the virus was not a bioweapon.
    Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The vaccines have been proven safe and effective and, no, Covid-19 was not a bioweapon.
    Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • And which types of microbes would most likely be used as bioweapons?
    R. Daniel Bressler, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
  • Some have questioned the seriousness of the threat posed by bioweapons.
    R. Daniel Bressler, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
  • Who is also the guy who gave the Tesla a bioweapon defense mode button.
    Aja Romano, Vox, 23 Mar. 2018
  • But the agencies are united, the official said, in the view that the virus was not man-made or developed as a bioweapon.
    Joby Warrick, Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • His weapon of choice is a bioweapon with the ability to infect its victims in a virus-like fashion.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Another level is something that tells you how to make a bioweapon.
    IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
  • From claims that the virus is a bioweapon, to the idea that 5G transmissions are behind the pandemic, there's been no shortage of hard-to-believe ideas.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2020
  • In government and academia, experts have ruled out the notion that it was concocted as a bioweapon.
    Adam Goldman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The United States and Ukraine were developing bioweapons.
    CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The first three games revolve around the Metroid species, a life-sapping parasitical lifeform that acts as a bioweapon of sorts.
    Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • Analysts do not believe the virus was developed as a bioweapon.
    Nomaan Merchant, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • And the claim about bioweapons labs has been disproven as a conspiracy theory.
    Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
  • Newell does not believe that the coronavirus is a hoax, or a bioweapon created by the Chinese government.
    Nina Jankowicz, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2020
  • By the end of the prologue, she has been thrown into the deep end of a sinister conspiracy involving a deadly bioweapon.
    Ayana Mathis, The Atlantic, 11 May 2021
  • Before long, the team tracks down the man behind the violence: Robert King, a black-ops soldier who once tricked Abby into creating a bioweapon.
    Laura Bradley, HWD, 9 May 2018
  • The job? Locate and dig up the corpse of the operative who died from exposure to the potential bioweapon and uncover something the KGB badly wants.
    Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2017
  • These theories contended that the virus was not part of a natural spillover, but a bioweapon created in a Chinese lab.
    Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Some apparently think it should be classified as a bioweapon.
    Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Perhaps the virus was created in a lab as a bioweapon, or by pharmaceutical companies to boost sales of drugs and vaccines.
    Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The most pressing worry is that someone somewhere will use the spreading technology to create a bioweapon.
    Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • Her team used bacteria that fed on glue, oil and apparently Alessandro’s phosphates as a bioweapon against centuries of stains.
    New York Times, 30 May 2021
  • During the same broadcast, Limbaugh repeated a debunked theory that the virus was engineered by the Chinese as a bioweapon.
    Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • But that is stirring worries that someone somewhere will use the spreading technology to create a bioweapon.
    Emily Baumgaertner, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • In the wrong hands, the power of xenobots could easily be exploited as a bioweapon, ferrying poisons instead of medicines into people.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Other baseless theories and hoaxes have alleged that the virus isn’t real or that it’s a bioweapon created by the U.S. or its adversaries.
    David Klepper, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2020
  • Intelligence agencies do agree, however, that the virus was not developed as a bioweapon.
    Ruby Cramer, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • But the Kremlin pressed ahead, convinced that the Pentagon was continuing bioweapons research in secret.
    Joby Warrick, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Called luosifen, the soup has a reputation for repelling diners with a stank so potent that some folks, perhaps with an aggrieved tongue pressed against their cheek, classify it as a bioweapon.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022

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