How to Use borne in a Sentence
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By that time, however, what other AI-borne threat will emerge?
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
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An effort to persuade central banks to make one-off payments to Iran to pay for future oil imports has so far borne little fruit, officials say.
—Laurence Norman, WSJ, 6 June 2018
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This mosquito-borne parasitic disease causes recurrent fever and chills.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
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In all the history of respiratory-borne viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks.
—NBC News, 28 Jan. 2020
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For years, countries across Latin America and the Caribbean have battled these same mosquito-borne threats—and learned how to manage them.
—Jarbas Barbosa, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
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The costs of protectionism are largely borne, not by some foreign country, but by American businesses, consumers, and taxpayers.
—NBC News, 25 Aug. 2019
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Eventually, Sully and Susanna decided to join her, possibly as the result of a water borne illness in Columbus.
—Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2018
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But its complications can and should be mutually borne, offering comparable degrees of self-determination and satisfaction to women and men.
—Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 17 Jan. 2018
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These tips will also protect against other mosquito-borne viruses, like dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, for which DSHS has noted a global rise in cases.
—Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 20 May 2026
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The mosquito-borne condition, also known as lymphatic filariasis, is common in certain populations of the world, including Myanmar.
—Author: Amy B Wang, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Oct. 2017
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That means leveraging the latest data, cooperating across countries and drawing on the expertise of communities that have been overcoming the challenge of mosquito-borne viruses for generations.
—Jarbas Barbosa, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
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Examples include people being sickened with, and dying from, rat-borne diseases such as leptospirosis after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2026
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An outbreak of the chikungunya virus in the manufacturing hub of Foshan near Hong Kong has prompted Chinese authorities to implement robust precautionary measures to prevent new cases from the mosquito-borne illness.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 6 Aug. 2025
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What To Know Chikungunya in China On August 1, the CDC issued a Level 2 travel alert for Guangdong Province, China, citing an outbreak of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus.
—Isabel Van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
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Americans traveling to either Cuba, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or Guangdong Province in China, have been warned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus, chikungunya.
—Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
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