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Recent Examples of sublethal
Documenting often-invisible, sublethal effects in wild animals that are definitively linked to plastic itself has remained elusive.
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Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
But subtler, sublethal effects, like those described above for DDT, could be much farther-reaching.
—Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
The third is that this dosage was sublethal, just to send a message.
—Ellen Barry and Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
There’s a growing body of evidence, too, that neonicotinoids may have sublethal effects, says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a bee researcher at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the new study.
—Lindsey Konkel, National Geographic, 26 July 2016
There’s a growing body of evidence, too, that neonicotinoids may have sublethal effects, says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a bee researcher at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the new study.
—National Geographic, 26 July 2016
Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
But subtler, sublethal effects, like those described above for DDT, could be much farther-reaching.
—Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
The third is that this dosage was sublethal, just to send a message.
—Ellen Barry and Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
There’s a growing body of evidence, too, that neonicotinoids may have sublethal effects, says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a bee researcher at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the new study.
—Lindsey Konkel, National Geographic, 26 July 2016
There’s a growing body of evidence, too, that neonicotinoids may have sublethal effects, says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a bee researcher at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the new study.
—National Geographic, 26 July 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sublethal
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Unfortunately for this fish, crinoids don't have much nutrition and have a coating of mucus that can be toxic to fish.—
James Doubek,
NPR,
29 Jan. 2025
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Experts at Parenting FirstCry note that toxic behavior from a SIL can manifest as manipulation, criticism, or attempts to create conflict.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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On July 30, Ray updated her fans again, revealing her diagnosis of infective endocarditis, a severe heart infection.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
31 July 2024
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Hospitalizations for strokes related to opioid use and infective endocarditis, a life-threatening infection of the heart’s lining and valves, increased in people under 45 from 2006 through 2015, coinciding with the opioid epidemic’s onset, the authors added.—
Elizabeth Cooney,
STAT,
23 May 2024
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But the notion that Americans must accept a little terrorism and virulent Jew hatred along with their charitable works imposes a false choice on American taxpayers.—
The Editors,
National Review,
9 Jan. 2025
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Even if the Islamic Republic collapsed, it might only be replaced by a more virulent regime.—
Richard Nephew,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Jan. 2025
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Seven-percent mortgages have been poisonous to homebuilders, and Horton was down 26% in the fourth quarter – in a rising market, at that.—
John Dorfman,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Social platforms are poised to become even more poisonous to their own users as a handful of outrageously rich and powerful men grapple with their own insecurities around masculinity and free speech.—
Megan Farokhmanesh,
WIRED,
15 Jan. 2025
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And existing immunity could, for a time, still buffer against an infectious deluge, especially from pathogens that remain quite rare globally.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2025
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This leaves the people who drink it vulnerable to infectious microbes or potentially other toxic contaminants.—
Bill Sullivan,
The Conversation,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The reason for this is because of the deleterious effects of particle pollution, which are tiny particles smaller than the size of a hair follicle that get suspended in the atmosphere when trees, houses and plastic burn.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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Furthermore, his distrust of institutions is something Americans across the political spectrum share, and his concern about chronic diseases and the deleterious influences of the agriculture and pharmaceutical industries on health is something many health authorities agree with.—
Keren Landman,
Vox,
27 Nov. 2024
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In an October 2022 article in the Montreal Gazette, Bryn Austin, a professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, highlighted how BMI can lead to harmful outcomes.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Market intervention is always and everywhere harmful simply because markets are people.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Academic opportunists the past week showed once more how pernicious, naïve misinformation can catch fire and consume the truth, especially when dressed with the veneer of academic credibility.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
2 Feb. 2023
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Most of us can agree the world is in a perilous state, with natural disasters multiplying, pernicious new viruses continually emerging, the planet steadily overheating, and wars raging in constant rotation.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Feb. 2023
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“Sublethal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sublethal. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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