Examples of biowarfare in a Sentence
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Some conspiracy theories even alleged that the global humanitarian programs were a cover for biowarfare research or that USAID’s funding enriched a few elites who control the world, but those claims were outside the mainstream.
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Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2025
Researchers determined that the SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged from horseshoe bats rather than a biowarfare lab, and generally agreed that pangolins, rather than snakes, were the likely intermediary carriers, although some support was voiced for turtles.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
These are core military functions, particularly in terms of biowarfare and biodefense.
—James Stavridis, Time, 23 Mar. 2020
The country had been on the receiving end of germ warfare, on the part of the Imperial Japanese Army’s biowarfare Unit 731 during World War II.
—Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2020
The United States had its own biowarfare research program starting in World War II, and testing of potential weapons, especially anthrax, expanded dramatically in the early years of the Cold War.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2025
Researchers determined that the SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged from horseshoe bats rather than a biowarfare lab, and generally agreed that pangolins, rather than snakes, were the likely intermediary carriers, although some support was voiced for turtles.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
These are core military functions, particularly in terms of biowarfare and biodefense.
—James Stavridis, Time, 23 Mar. 2020
The country had been on the receiving end of germ warfare, on the part of the Imperial Japanese Army’s biowarfare Unit 731 during World War II.
—Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2020
The United States had its own biowarfare research program starting in World War II, and testing of potential weapons, especially anthrax, expanded dramatically in the early years of the Cold War.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Biowarfare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biowarfare. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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