How to Use neutralization in a Sentence

neutralization

noun
  • Just how much more effective was the neutralization after the booster?
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Fewer still—two out of those five—reached 80 percent neutralization or higher.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • But by seven months, neutralization of omicron was found in only 55% of people.
    Macaela MacKenzie, SELF, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The team’s approach is based on a basic chemistry principle called neutralization.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • There were more neutralization antibodies found against the variants than with the standard version of the vaccine.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 May 2021
  • One approach would be to look at analogous cases, where neutralization also dropped by around the same amount, to see how effective vaccines were in those cases.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Blue Grass will use a different type of neutralization on some weapons and will destroy others in a closed detonation chamber.
    Dan Elliott, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Dallas had under two minutes to erase a 13-point lead, needing two flags and a neutralization on the third flag for an extended period.
    Sean Collins, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Even as neutralization data pour in, experts are also going to be studying how vaccines stand up to Omicron in the real world — a process that will take longer.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The markers for neutralization measure how strongly antibodies block the virus from infecting cells.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2021
  • None of these controls demonstrated neutralization titers against Covid-19.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • In a search for an Achilles’ heel for the virus, the scientific world is monitoring potential targets for virus neutralization.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Since only the prefusion form contains the most neutralization-sensitive binding sites, the vaccine was not effective.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Sera from patient 12 demonstrated the highest levels of neutralization.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Santander Festival prizes given this year will come in the form of the neutralization of winning movies’ CO2 footprints.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The Army has already eradicated much of its stockpile by incineration, which is cheaper per weapon than neutralization.
    Dan Elliott, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • These fall in the same region as P1176F and may contribute to further neutralization escape.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • This is not to say there are no escape variants that reduce binding and neutralization to the BG10-19 antibody.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • The insertion in the NTD was able to finish the job, taking neutralization titers from roughly 60 to zero in a matter of days.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Indeed, boosting with another dose of the Moderna vaccine saw the highest neutralization numbers.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The gold standard for doing that is called a virus neutralization assay, which combines human cells and live virus with a blood sample to see whether the sample contains antibodies that keep the virus from binding to the cells.
    Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 30 Sep. 2020
  • But strategic neutralization is attainable without waging a multidecade war of attrition.
    Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Data from other neutralization studies are expected to be released soon, the result of a fast and furious global rally to understand the latest variant threat.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The neutralization of American aircraft carriers would give China a freer hand in the Pacific.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The research speculates that neutralization is preserved as the interaction between the antibody and the receptor occurs over so many contacts.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • This is consistent with the distortion during cryo-electron microscopy and likely explains the lack of neutralization by the B6 antibody.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • Seven months after the participants got their second dose, neutralization against Omicron was detected in only 55% of the blood samples.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The second affect is the chimera effect, this is what causes a kind of gravity simulation of gravity neutralization because you are stabilized in 3D space.
    Laraib Hashmi, Houston Chronicle, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Researchers revealed that the high-voltage output facilitates the neutralization and collection of dust and moisture by generating negative ions.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Residents were asked to leave the building, with many being taken to a nearby recreation center, as investigators entered the apartment with a neutralization plan, according to Blake.
    Dan Morse, Washington Post, 23 June 2022

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