How to Use biological warfare in a Sentence

biological warfare

noun
  • In the games, the virus is used as a type of biological warfare that can mutate those exposed to it.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There’s no evidence the colorful pest was used as a form of biological warfare.
    Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 27 June 2024
  • At this point, that might be the only way to protect the world from extinction-level biological warfare.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 8 May 2018
  • There is a killer bug buzzing around Australia which scientists are breeding as a biological warfare agent.
    Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • There is no antidote — and that has made the Marburg virus a prime candidate for biological warfare.
    Lucy Cooke, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
  • There is no antidote - and that has made the Marburg virus a prime candidate for biological warfare.
    Lucy Cooke, ajc, 3 July 2018
  • Poop was also used in some of the earliest experiments for biological warfare.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
  • If the virus is ever deployed as biological warfare, the fruit bat’s super-immunity may hold the answer to preventing its spread.
    Lucy Cooke, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
  • If the virus is ever deployed as biological warfare, the fruit bat's super-immunity may hold the answer to preventing its spread.
    Lucy Cooke, ajc, 3 July 2018
  • Oleg, an idealist, committed treason in season four to protect the world from biological warfare.
    Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 24 May 2018
  • These features, along with the ability to disperse it as an aerosol, also make anthrax an ideal candidate for biological warfare.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the biological warfare of pest control, there’s certainly more than one way to attack a mosquito, public health officials say.
    Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • But this pandemic should be a stark reminder that the risk of biological warfare must be taken seriously, and preparations be made for an even worse-case scenario.
    Abraar Karan, STAT, 22 Aug. 2021
  • It's set several decades from now, long after a breakdown in the global order brought an end to the nation-state and climate change and biological warfare killed hundreds of millions.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Similarly, breakthroughs in biosciences can save lives on the battlefield but also heighten the risk of biological warfare.
    Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Did mosquitos inspire the idea of biological warfare in general?
    Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 5 Aug. 2019
  • But at the same time, Langmuir was growing increasingly preoccupied by the threat of biological warfare.
    Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • Existing chemical and biological warfare suits are difficult to wear and lack some protective features.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
  • People miss their public pleasures, like checking their texts during movies and coughing indoors without being suspected of biological warfare.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The Pentagon’s research arm wants a better suit for those responding to chemical and biological warfare attacks.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Disguised as an epidemic prevention and water purification department, the unit functioned through the end of the war as a testing ground for agents of biological warfare.
    Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • Many in China also perceive the United States as a potential biological warfare threat.
    Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2020
  • In the case of pandemics or biological warfare, there will likely be both a surge in demand for important goods and a simultaneous disruption of production and delivery.
    Smithsonian, 22 Jan. 2018
  • But others pushed exaggerated or false claims, like the unproven theory that the virus was engineered in a lab as part of a Chinese biological warfare strategy.
    Kevin Roose, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Many people in China also perceive the United States as a potential biological warfare threat.
    Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The novel coronavirus is not an ideal biological warfare agent, experts say, because its impact on the United States and adversaries alike cannot be controlled.
    Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2020
  • In the case of pandemics or biological warfare, there will probably be a surge in demand for important goods and a simultaneous disruption of production and delivery.
    Morten Wendelbo, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Worryingly, Russia has also threatened to break the taboo on the first use of nuclear weapons and has the capability to carry out chemical and biological warfare.
    Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
  • This is purportedly the result of biological warfare on the part of a native intelligent species known as Spackle, who resented the arrival of the colonizers.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • This was the start of Pontiac’s War, a series of sieges and battles that lasted a full year and ended with the British using smallpox blankets to commit biological warfare against the natives.
    Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 19 June 2018

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