How to Use omicron in a Sentence

omicron

noun

• The county was among the first in the state to get hit by the omicron surge.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 10 Feb. 2022
• The newest omicron strain, known as BA.2.75, has already shown up in the Bay Area.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 July 2022
• Clydes during the last two weeks of its run in January and in the thick of the omicron variant.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2022
• The rising case count is most likely due to the spread of the B.A.4 and B.A.5 omicron subvariants.
  — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2022
• That variant is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year.
  — Chris Megerian, ajc, 24 July 2022
• The good news is that the numbers are still 70% below last January’s at the peak of the first omicron surge.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2023
• The landscape shifted again with the arrival in late 2021 of the omicron variant.
  — Robin Fields, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2022
• The business is still losing money, though, and the omicron surge did not help.
  — David Wessel, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
• As for the threat of the BA.2 omicron subvariant, Matthews said her cruise line is prepared.
  — Tammy Stables Battaglia, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
• But the reason wasn’t just that omicron overwhelmed the state’s test supply.
  — Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
• The omicron variant has pushed new case levels to record highs in Mat-Su within the past few weeks.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2022
• But that and a booster shot were not enough when the omicron variant swept the city in December.
  — Adam Geller, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2022
• The first edition was pushed to late 2021, only to then be hit by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
• And at the end of the omicron surge, ADPH stopped reporting numbers on weekends.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2022
• While the country did get hit hard with the omicron variant earlier in the year, things have since calmed down.
  — Breanna Wilson, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• And those who survived delta faced the risk of catching the later omicron variant.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii and Luke Money, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022
• And there’s no guarantee that the next variant will be like omicron.
  — al, 4 Feb. 2022
• Times are tough again for live music because of the omicron variant.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2022
• The city has been under a strict lockdown since March amid the omicron variant outbreak.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
• But the omicron variants more often leads to milder illness than delta.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 8 Jan. 2022
• In the Northeast, where the omicron subvariants first took hold this spring, deaths climbed as cases surged.
  — Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2022
• Late last year, the omicron variant led to yet another surge.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
• As the omicron variant of the coronavirus spread, doctors and patients scrambled to find the pills.
  — NBC News, 14 Apr. 2022
• The meeting has been postponed because of the omicron variant.
  — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2021
• Wall Street had expected the loss in a quarter marred by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
• Monday brought word of a new omicron variant that is storming the United States.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2023
• The omicron variant has been seen in about 20 states so far, according to news reports.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2021
• More:Looking for a consistent school response to the omicron surge?
  — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2022
• Why a cloth mask might not offer the strongest protection against omicron To give yourself the best shot against omicron, upgrade your masks.
  — USA Today, 7 Jan. 2022
• Duterte’s nationwide order follows localized efforts to contain the spread of the omicron wave.
  — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 7 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024