How to Use anti-vaxxer in a Sentence

anti-vaxxer

noun
  • Not even Taylor Swift can persuade anti-vaxxers to get the jab.
    Christopher Morse, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Finally, the anti-vaxxer mom’s husband is standing up for his son.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
  • For these anti-vaxxers, celebrity deaths are never random or senseless.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2024
  • More surprisingly, the first thing Everett does is blame anti-vaxxers, and Rip just nods along.
    William Earl, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • Bigtree, whose father is a minister, used his speech to embrace the anti-vax label, even calling God an anti-vaxxer.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
  • For instance, a close friend who turned out to be an anti-vaxxer and whose worldview increasingly clashed with mine, wrote me a five page letter ending the friendship.
    Meehika Barua, Time, 8 Dec. 2025
  • That is how rich fail-son anti-vaxxers with addiction problems get to run America's most important health ministry.
    Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Kennedy is an anti-vaxxer who promotes false conspiracy theories and disputes almost anything backed by science.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Evidently, there are some (or at least one) anti-vaxxers in my son-in-law’s family; and Siena’s comment must have offended one or more of them.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Plus some anti-vaxxers, a smattering of Jacobites, and a couple of millenarians.
    Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Its language raised eyebrows about fearmongering over hormonal contraceptives in an anti-vaxxer era.
    Maria Aspan, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • During the pandemic and Biden years, South Park focused on poking anti-vaxxers that were making it into the mainstream.
    Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
  • So, for a head of state to willingly submit herself and her heir to the treatment regimen was an act of unprecedented heroism, and made a significant statement to anti-vaxxers of the era.
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Another features images of anti-vaxxer and third-party candidate RFK Jr.
    Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The anti-vaxxer was probably still in their community, presumably unbowed and unvaccinated.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • By 2015, historically left-leaning anti-vaxxers were using social media to grow their movement across political and special interest lines.
    Keren Landman, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Vigilant doctors and public health experts in charge of government policy mostly kept the anti-vaxxers relegated to the darker corners of medical discussion, and later to the backwaters of social media.
    Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
  • Republicans, by allowing an anti-vaxxer to become the Secretary of Health and Human Services, will also be responsible for the many kids who may die from preventable diseases.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Historian Andrew Wehrman, an expert on the history of smallpox vaccination in the United States, gives a telling example of the harm that is done when an expert debates an anti-vaxxer.
    Time, 22 June 2023
  • This group is just the latest example of how the anti-vaxxer community has used platforms like Facebook for more than a decade to prey on vulnerable people by pushing bogus and dangerous pseudoscientific products—especially those targeting children.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2024
  • And as Stat News points out, this is also playing out as Kennedy is facing blame for inciting the deadly shooting last Friday at the headquarters for the Centers for Disease Control and Protection by an anti-vaxxer gunman.
    Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Yeah, add that to the long list of unsupported claims about these vaccines that have ranged from various anti-vaxxers asserting that the vaccines will turn you into a gigantic magnet to attributing seemingly every celebrity illness and death during the COVID-19 pandemic to the COVID-19 vaccines.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026

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