How to Use adjuvant in a Sentence

adjuvant

1 of 2 adjective
  • The type of adjuvant chemotherapy and the length of treatment depends on the type of cancer that’s been diagnosed.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • For decades, aluminum has been used as a vaccine adjuvant – an ingredient added to create a stronger immune response.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Sims said Sanders will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine and long-term continuing care.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
  • It's also called adjuvant therapy and is typically an option that is given after surgery as a way to prevent cancer from coming back.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 16 May 2023
  • The dual-adjuvant nanoparticles produced an enhanced, effective immune response in the mice.
    — New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Sanofi will provide the experimental vaccine, while Glaxo will contribute its adjuvant technology, which may allow more doses of the shot to be produced.
    — Fortune, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Because the study was observational — meaning there was no control group or intervention — the findings don’t prove that any of the adjuvant therapies caused secondary cancers, only that there is a link.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The British pharmaceutical giant opted to partner with a number of companies using its adjuvant technology in the creation of a vaccine.
    — Fortune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • According to oncologists, adjuvant chemotherapy is used to target microscopic cancer cells that may be invisible to the eye and remain in the body after a primary treatment.
    — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • When combined with multiple peptides, 100% of vaccinated mice rejected tumors, while all untreated or single-adjuvant groups died within a month.
    — New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Radiation treatment and hormone therapy are other examples of adjuvant therapies for cancer patients.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • An adjuvant component for the vaccine is required and provided by Novavax, a biotechnology company in the US and Sweden.
    — Adrian Hill, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Super-adjuvant nanoparticles for platform cancer vaccination.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Formally known as adjuvant therapy, administering chemotherapy or other treatments after surgery is a common approach to treating certain types of cancer and is not necessarily intended to prevent cancer.
    — Alexander Olawaiye, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Common cancer treatments like chemotherapy and external or internal radiation therapies are considered adjuvant therapies.
    — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Military personnel started comparing the adjuvant combinations on rhesus monkeys at an Army facility in Thailand and ran clinical trials that tested the most promising pairs in humans and devised dosing strategies.
    — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 4 Oct. 2023
  • These findings led a National Institutes of Health consensus panel to recommend adjuvant chemotherapy for most patients, a practice that has contributed to declining breast cancer mortality.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 4 June 2018
  • Sanofi will combine its experimental coronavirus vaccine with GlaxoSmithKline’s adjuvant technology, which may allow more doses of a shot to be produced, the companies said Tuesday.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The company's vaccine platforms combine formulation and adjuvant ingredients to stabilize and deliver RNA to the immune system to stimulate responses.
    — Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Recognizing the need for a comprehensive strategy, the funding is going to multidisciplinary groups with expertise in virology and immunology, immunogen design, and innovative vaccine and adjuvant platforms and technologies.
    — Laura Defrancesco, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022

adjuvant

2 of 2 noun
  • And in some cases, there are things called adjuvants, chemicals to boost the response.
    — CBS News, 13 May 2020
  • This is harvested and mixed with an adjuvant -- an immune booster --based on saponin, found in soap bark trees.
    — Maggie Fox, CNN, 24 Nov. 2020
  • But the adjuvant caused ulcers at the injection site, so it was dropped from later vaccines.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020
  • One plant makes the protein antigen, and another makes the adjuvant.
    — Sarah Jane Tribble, Quartz, 20 July 2021
  • These adjuvants have been used safely for nearly a century.
    — NPR, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Squalene is used to create an adjuvant, which helps a vaccine produce a strong immune response.
    — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Novavax’s adjuvant is derived from the bark of an evergreen tree native to Chile.
    — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 14 June 2021
  • They are used as adjuvants to give the immune system an extra kick necessary to make the shots protective.
    — NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The shots also contain a component, called an adjuvant, to boost the immune response.
    — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The vaccine includes an adjuvant, a compound that boosts the response the vaccine triggers.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 3 May 2023
  • The second part of the vaccine is a substance called an adjuvant, which is made out of a molecule found in tree bark and food additives.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 22 June 2020
  • An adjuvant, a vaccine ingredient that revs up the immune system, is added.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2022
  • The team at Boston Children’s is not the only group testing adjuvants.
    — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The additive, called an adjuvant, prevents the formation of dicamba acid, which can evaporate off of plants and drift on the wind.
    — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2020
  • After isolating the virus spike protein from the yeast and adding an adjuvant, which helps trigger an immune response, the vaccine was ready for use.
    — Maureen Ferran, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2022
  • One plant makes the protein antigen, and another makes the Matrix-M adjuvant.
    — Sarah Jane Tribble, baltimoresun.com, 19 July 2021
  • The vaccine also contains an adjuvant, an ingredient used to rev up the immune system.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • The adjuvant in this vaccine is MF59, an oil-in-water emulsion of squalene oil.
    — Anne P. Kim, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Symptoms are said to appear up to 2 decades after exposure to an adjuvant and include anything from dry mouth to memory loss.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Then Novavax adds its adjuvant, based on saponin, a compound found in soap bark trees that stimulates the immune system (see graphic, above).
    — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 3 Nov. 2020
  • What makes Shingrix so much better is the inclusion of a substance called an adjuvant that boosts the body’s immune response to the vaccine.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • One is Fluad, a vaccine made using an adjuvant, which helps create a stronger immune response in the body and first became available last year.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Johnston said the lipid nanoparticles not only help deliver the drug but also act as an adjuvant, a substance that helps strengthen a drug’s effect.
    — NBC News, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Another version has the same amount of antigen, but also has an ingredient called an adjuvant which help spur the immune system to mount a stronger response.
    — Beth Weinhouse, Health.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Another example of an adjuvant added to some vaccines is aluminum salts, per the CDC.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The other is an adjuvant, an ingredient that helps create a stronger immune response, and is licensed for adults 65 and older.
    — Fox News, 29 Sep. 2016
  • In the past, vaccine makers sometimes have added a second ingredient to a vaccine, called an adjuvant, to enhance the immune response.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2020
  • The as yet unnamed vaccine contains the squalene adjuvant MF59, which is sourced from a variety of shark species.
    — Justin Meneguzzi, National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The plan is to marry its VLP to an adjuvant, with the goal of providing vaccine doses to the greatest number of people.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 9 July 2020
  • The vaccine contains those spikes along with a second part, an adjuvant containing Vitamin E, which helps the immune system do its job.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 22 June 2020

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