How to Use SARS in a Sentence

SARS

noun

• The virus that causes Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, was found in about 15%.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
• Which means the drugs could be effective against all coronaviruses, not just SARS-CoV-2.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Dec. 2020
• Against strains less than 8% genetically different from SARS, the vaccine worked.
  — Dan Werb, Time, 11 July 2023
• One key lesson from both SARS and COVID was how much superspreading can play a role.
  — Zeynep Tufekci, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
• During the study, the researchers exposed mice to either SARS-CoV-2 or influenza virus.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 24 Sep. 2025
• It can also be used to treat viral hemorrhagic fevers and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
  — Addy Bink, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
• Preliminary lab results suggested a coronavirus — not SARS virus, but something similar — might be the cause.
  — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• Do mRNA vaccines make the SARS-CoV-2 virus resistant?
  — Deborah Fuller, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
• This transmission pathway is well-documented and was likely responsible for the first SARS epidemic.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
• Measles, which is far more contagious than SARS-CoV-2, exposes the same structural failures with even less tolerance for delay or error.
  — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026
• Plus, that whole waning immunity thing means that your immune system needs to be periodically reminded that the SARS-Cov-2 is a bad thing.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• Wastewater surveillance showed moderate, high and very high levels of SARS-CoV-2 in much of the nation, as of the week ending on August 9.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2025
• Allen Law became a hotelier by accident, when his family bought the Park Hotel brand in 2003, amid the SARS crisis.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
• Similar challenges have emerged for influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and other rapidly changing viruses.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• The year before that, SARS had emerged, ultimately infecting over 8,000 people in nearly 30 countries.
  — Neil Vora, Time, 22 May 2026
• One of those six, baricitinib, a once-daily pill approved to treat rheumatoid arthritis, looks to be the best of the group for both safety and efficacy against SARS-CoV-2, the authors wrote.
  — Megan Scudellari, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2020
• However, due to the extreme number of mutations, some researchers have suggested that omicron does represent an antigenic shift for SARS-CoV-2.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
• In contrast, one person infected with SARS-CoV-2, could, on average, infect 15 to 20 others.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
• As a result, the tax paid by businesses on these digital services is refunded, effectively neutralizing any revenue that SARS would otherwise collect from these transactions.
  — Aleksandra Bal, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
• In mice, the spray reduced infection rates from viruses including flu and SARS-CoV-2, as well as common bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, for about three months.
  — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 23 Feb. 2026
• Advertisement Andes does not spread as easily as SARS-CoV-2, but Ghebreyesus said the current outbreak could lead to more cases in coming weeks.
  — Alice Park, Time, 7 May 2026
• More recent studies show that infection by the virus that causes COVID, SARS-CoV-2, can result in heightened health risks months to more than a year later.
  — Stephanie Armour, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
• Researchers have looked extensively at SARS-CoV-2’s impact on disease risk and the health implications of long COVID.
  — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
• The study also revealed that the ancient plague was evolving under strong constraints, suggesting different disease dynamics compared to contemporary pathogens like SARS-CoV-2.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
• The film about medical workers a the centre of the response to 2003’s SARS epidemic earned prizes for best director, best actor, best art design, visual effects and outstanding artistic contribution.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 July 2023
• Moreover, unlike transmission of the SARS-CoV-2, human-to-human transmission of the Andes virus requires prolonged close contact with someone actively shedding the virus.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• Advertisement Such lingering may in fact have led to the evolution of new strains of SARS-CoV-2, with viruses accumulating new mutations during a stay in an unwitting human host.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 25 Mar. 2026
• The far less transmissible coronaviruses SARS and MERS killed 15 and 35 percent, respectively.
  — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
• In 2003, the SARS threat triggered broad discussions of the risks of overconcentration, the importance of contingency planning, and the value of supply chain diversification.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 July 2024
• This multi-antibody approach could also be crucial for combating other rapidly evolving viruses like influenza and SARS-CoV-2, offering a more durable defense against viral evolution.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026