How to Use SARS in a Sentence

SARS

noun
  • The virus that causes Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, was found in about 15%.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Which means the drugs could be effective against all coronaviruses, not just SARS-CoV-2.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Against strains less than 8% genetically different from SARS, the vaccine worked.
    — Dan Werb, Time, 11 July 2023
  • One key lesson from both SARS and COVID was how much superspreading can play a role.
    — Zeynep Tufekci, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
  • During the study, the researchers exposed mice to either SARS-CoV-2 or influenza virus.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 24 Sep. 2025
  • It can also be used to treat viral hemorrhagic fevers and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Preliminary lab results suggested a coronavirus — not SARS virus, but something similar — might be the cause.
    — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • According to his notes, only two of the scientists voiced support for a natural origin of SARS-CoV-2.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 27 July 2026
  • Do mRNA vaccines make the SARS-CoV-2 virus resistant?
    — Deborah Fuller, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This transmission pathway is well-documented and was likely responsible for the first SARS epidemic.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Measles, which is far more contagious than SARS-CoV-2, exposes the same structural failures with even less tolerance for delay or error.
    — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Plus, that whole waning immunity thing means that your immune system needs to be periodically reminded that the SARS-Cov-2 is a bad thing.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Wastewater surveillance showed moderate, high and very high levels of SARS-CoV-2 in much of the nation, as of the week ending on August 9.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Allen Law became a hotelier by accident, when his family bought the Park Hotel brand in 2003, amid the SARS crisis.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Similar challenges have emerged for influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and other rapidly changing viruses.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The year before that, SARS had emerged, ultimately infecting over 8,000 people in nearly 30 countries.
    — Neil Vora, Time, 22 May 2026
  • One of those six, baricitinib, a once-daily pill approved to treat rheumatoid arthritis, looks to be the best of the group for both safety and efficacy against SARS-CoV-2, the authors wrote.
    — Megan Scudellari, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2020
  • However, due to the extreme number of mutations, some researchers have suggested that omicron does represent an antigenic shift for SARS-CoV-2.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In contrast, one person infected with SARS-CoV-2, could, on average, infect 15 to 20 others.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
  • As a result, the tax paid by businesses on these digital services is refunded, effectively neutralizing any revenue that SARS would otherwise collect from these transactions.
    — Aleksandra Bal, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • These moves have once again foregrounded Paul's unproven claims that the SARS-Cov-2 virus came from a lab leak and that Fauci covered it up — a charge the scientist has vociferously denied.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 July 2026
  • In mice, the spray reduced infection rates from viruses including flu and SARS-CoV-2, as well as common bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, for about three months.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Advertisement Andes does not spread as easily as SARS-CoV-2, but Ghebreyesus said the current outbreak could lead to more cases in coming weeks.
    — Alice Park, Time, 7 May 2026
  • Lab leak focus The White House said several lines of evidence support a laboratory origin for SARS-CoV-2.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026
  • For years, Paul and Fauci have differed over the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 27 July 2026
  • More recent studies show that infection by the virus that causes COVID, SARS-CoV-2, can result in heightened health risks months to more than a year later.
    — Stephanie Armour, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Researchers have looked extensively at SARS-CoV-2’s impact on disease risk and the health implications of long COVID.
    — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The study also revealed that the ancient plague was evolving under strong constraints, suggesting different disease dynamics compared to contemporary pathogens like SARS-CoV-2.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The film about medical workers a the centre of the response to 2003’s SARS epidemic earned prizes for best director, best actor, best art design, visual effects and outstanding artistic contribution.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 July 2023
  • Moreover, unlike transmission of the SARS-CoV-2, human-to-human transmission of the Andes virus requires prolonged close contact with someone actively shedding the virus.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026

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