Examples of spillover in a Sentence
Put a pan under the pie to catch any spillovers.
New technology has a positive spillover effect into countless fields.
Recent Examples on the Web
And this is having spillover effects on our campuses and, of course, in some cities.
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CBS News, 28 Apr. 2024
Fentanyl’s emergence over the last decade as a cheaper and much more profitable source of income for the cartels upended the poppy trade in Mexico while producing spillover effects in Central America.
—Simon Romero Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2024
But there's been relatively little discussion about a spillover's ecological origins and how to stop it from happening in the first place.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
One theory attributes the origin to unregulated trading in China of disease-susceptible wildlife, from which the virus that causes the disease is thought to have leaped to humans in a process known as a zoonotic spillover.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Similarly, there are spillover benefits to society as a whole from childhood nutrition and medical care, from child care for working parents and from vaccinations and treatment of infectious diseases.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
The unlikely spread among cattle and one dairy worker has scientists looking through the data to better understand this spillover.
—Will Stone, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
That has very big negative spillovers onto the other seven.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
Fear of besieged Palestinians escaping to Egypt seems to have added fresh momentum to a European Commission proposal to pay Egypt to keep migrants away from the E.U.
European Council President Charles Michel argued for the need to invest in the region to prevent spillover into Europe.
—Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
CBS News, 28 Apr. 2024
Fentanyl’s emergence over the last decade as a cheaper and much more profitable source of income for the cartels upended the poppy trade in Mexico while producing spillover effects in Central America.
—Simon Romero Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2024
But there's been relatively little discussion about a spillover's ecological origins and how to stop it from happening in the first place.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
One theory attributes the origin to unregulated trading in China of disease-susceptible wildlife, from which the virus that causes the disease is thought to have leaped to humans in a process known as a zoonotic spillover.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Similarly, there are spillover benefits to society as a whole from childhood nutrition and medical care, from child care for working parents and from vaccinations and treatment of infectious diseases.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
The unlikely spread among cattle and one dairy worker has scientists looking through the data to better understand this spillover.
—Will Stone, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
That has very big negative spillovers onto the other seven.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
Fear of besieged Palestinians escaping to Egypt seems to have added fresh momentum to a European Commission proposal to pay Egypt to keep migrants away from the E.U.
European Council President Charles Michel argued for the need to invest in the region to prevent spillover into Europe.
—Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
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“Spillover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spillover. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
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