How to Use clade in a Sentence

clade

noun
  • The West African clade, which is what has been detected in the UK, is the milder of the two.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 May 2022
  • Last spring, a clade known as D614G came to dominate the world.
    James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The 2022 global outbreak was caused by the clade II strain, which is still present in the U.S. and elsewhere.
    Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2024
  • There are two clades of monkeypox: the West African clade and the Congo Basin clade.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 May 2022
  • But one clade of reptiles was already adapted to the cold.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
  • But the current outbreak involves the West African clade.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 May 2022
  • People talk about between 1% to 10%, depending on the clade of the virus.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 4 June 2022
  • The West African clade, the one now circulating around the world, is less severe.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • The strains will now be known as clade one (I) and clade two (II), respectively.
    Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The outbreak, caused by clade II virus, did not kill anyone in the U.S. and ended within 1 month.
    Byjon Cohen, science.org, 16 Aug. 2024
  • In the meantime, use of clade 1 and clade 2 will likely become entrenched.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022
  • It has been seen to cause more severe disease than clade II and clade IIb viruses.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Aug. 2024
  • One reason for the declaration is the emergence of a new virus strain last year, called clade 1b.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The less severe West African clade has a fatality rate of less than 1%.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 June 2022
  • That clade first showed up in the United States in California.
    USA Today, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Both were found to be in the same group, or clade, that was primarily found in North America.
    Author: Karen Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020
  • With the fossils, researchers suspect that all pterosaur clades in the Jurassic evolved before the end of the Early Jurassic era.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • For now the epidemic of the clade Ib variant of Mpox is mostly confined to the African continent.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Cases of the strain, called clade 1, haven't been reported outside of central and eastern Africa at this time, the CDC said in its alert.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • This is the first time an abelisaurid fossil has been found in the Bahariya Formation, and the oldest of its clade found in all of northeastern Africa.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • Over millennia, the clade from Egypt and Southwest Asia began to dominate the world.
    Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
  • The scientists proposed calling the clades by neutral names, clade 1 for Congo Basin and clade 2 for West Africa.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The Congo Basin clade has a high case fatality rate, roughly 10%, in Africa.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 May 2022
  • There are no efficacy data for IIa or clades Ia and Ib.
    Byjon Cohen, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Eventually, the genes of the Egyptian and southwest Asian clades began to win out over others.
    Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
  • The virus is characterized by two genetic clades, I and II.
    Manveena Suri and Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The West African clade is less fatal, with deaths occurring in about one percent of infections.
    Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
  • There were two types (or clades) of the infection observed—a Congo Basin clade (more severe and easily spread) and a West African clade (milder).
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 June 2022
  • Data suggests infections with the former has a fatality rate of around 10% and the rate for clade II is less than 1%.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • It's classified into two distinct viral groups, called clades: clade I and clade II.
    Reuters, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024

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