How to Use clade in a Sentence

clade

noun

• There is now a larger outbreak of a different clade in Africa.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Aug. 2024
• Scrub mints are a clade – a group of organisms that share a common ancestor.
  — Andre A. Naranjo, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
• Many species in this clade are endangered and confined to unique habitats, such as sandhills and scrub.
  — Andre A. Naranjo, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
• In the meantime, use of clade 1 and clade 2 will likely become entrenched.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022
• Last spring, a clade known as D614G came to dominate the world.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2021
• One reason for the declaration is the emergence of a new virus strain last year, called clade 1b.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
• People talk about between 1% to 10%, depending on the clade of the virus.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 4 June 2022
• The West African clade, the one now circulating around the world, is less severe.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• The strains will now be known as clade one (I) and clade two (II), respectively.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 15 Aug. 2022
• The less severe West African clade has a fatality rate of less than 1%.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 June 2022
• The clade Ib virus soon spilled over to neighboring countries, and now is the main strain spreading through Africa.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 23 Sep. 2024
• Mpox is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus, which comes in two strains called clades, the Mayo Clinic said.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
• The outbreak in Congo began with the spread of an endemic strain, known as clade I.
  — Trevor Hunnicutt and Julie Steenhuysen, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
• The West African clade, which is what has been detected in the UK, is the milder of the two.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 May 2022
• Both were found to be in the same group, or clade, that was primarily found in North America.
  — Author: Karen Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020
• That clade first showed up in the United States in California.
  — USA Today, 10 Dec. 2020
• It has been seen to cause more severe disease than clade II and clade IIb viruses.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Aug. 2024
• The West African clade is less fatal, with deaths occurring in about one percent of infections.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
• Eventually, the genes of the Egyptian and southwest Asian clades began to win out over others.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
• Over millennia, the clade from Egypt and Southwest Asia began to dominate the world.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
• On August 15, Sweden confirmed the first case of clade 1 mpox outside of Africa.
  — Judy Stone, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• These antibodies, tailored to target clade C, would bind to the virus and summon immune cells to eliminate it.
  — David Cox, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
• For now the epidemic of the clade Ib variant of Mpox is mostly confined to the African continent.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
• The Congo Basin clade has a high case fatality rate, roughly 10%, in Africa.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 May 2022
• One resident has tested positive for mpox clade I, one of the two main genetic groups (clades) of the mpox virus, which causes the illness.
  — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026
• The new strain is a mix of clade (or type) II and clade I, the latter of which is associated with more severe illness.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
• With the fossils, researchers suspect that all pterosaur clades in the Jurassic evolved before the end of the Early Jurassic era.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• The first case of mpox clade I has been detected in New York City, health officials said Friday.
  — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
• There are two strains, clade I and clade II but both are transmitted and treated in the same way, the CDC says.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026
• This is the first time an abelisaurid fossil has been found in the Bahariya Formation, and the oldest of its clade found in all of northeastern Africa.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022