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Robert Malone, the committee's vice chairman, characterized the vote to no longer universally recommend a birth dose vaccine as one that pitted individual rights against societal obligations.
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Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 5 Dec. 2025
Van Tol said long term societal impacts include things like poor academic performance, as kids enter school ill-prepared.
—Beki San Martin, Freep.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Transmission of the plague via grain shipments would support the idea that the Black Death is a complex event, influenced by a vast array of natural, societal and economic factors.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
Maliki’s rehabilitation portends naked authoritarianism, further erosion of civil and press rights, and a return of bitter societal divisions.
—Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
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Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 5 Dec. 2025
Van Tol said long term societal impacts include things like poor academic performance, as kids enter school ill-prepared.
—Beki San Martin, Freep.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Transmission of the plague via grain shipments would support the idea that the Black Death is a complex event, influenced by a vast array of natural, societal and economic factors.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
Maliki’s rehabilitation portends naked authoritarianism, further erosion of civil and press rights, and a return of bitter societal divisions.
—Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for societal
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“Societal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/societal. Accessed 7 Dec. 2025.
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