How to Use biological weapon in a Sentence

biological weapon

noun
  • Some fear that it could also be used to make a biological weapon.
    — Fortune, 27 June 2018
  • Treaties banning biological weapons and land mines are successes that don’t work.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, WSJ, 26 June 2018
  • These days the northern regime could load its artillery with chemical and biological weapons.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The findings confirmed the virus was not created as a biological weapon.
    — Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Over millions of years, the snail has developed a potent biological weapon.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The first is if the research is intended to develop a biological weapon.
    — David Gillum, The Conversation, 21 June 2021
  • Or its missiles, its stockpiles of VX and other nerve agents, or its biological weapons.
    — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2018
  • The Space Force could do little to stop an asymmetric attack with a biological weapon.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2018
  • The same strategy was used by proponents of the treaties that banned chemical and biological weapons, land mines and cluster bombs.
    — Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Washington had suffered through a case of smallpox and was concerned the British would use the disease as a biological weapon.
    — Anna Rothschild, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Defense experts point out that other countries have prepared biological weapons such as smallpox and anthrax.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • As with computer viruses or biological weapons, the threat from deepfakes is now a permanent feature on the landscape.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 27 June 2019
  • Osterholm said that ticks would be an ineffective biological weapon and that there are much more effective options.
    — al.com, 18 July 2019
  • Instead of the monstrous-looking biological weapon ripped from the pages of the comics, Annable's Reign is much more humanized.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2017
  • It has been confirmed that the system will protect against a wide range of threats – even including nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
    — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 18 June 2018
  • The House ordered the Pentagon to investigate whether ticks were once used as biological weapons.
    — Dylan Bouscher, The Mercury News, 19 July 2019
  • The laboratory involved was asked to identify the source of the biological weapon deployed at a politician's office, home, and car.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2014
  • An open question, said the former official, is how and whether to press Kim to account for and relinquish his chemical and biological weapons.
    — NBC News, 29 May 2018
  • Our spies also aver that the virus wasn’t developed as a biological weapon and that Chinese officials weren’t aware of the virus before the initial outbreak.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The sanctions do include a presumption of denial for export licenses for items that could be used in the production of chemical and biological weapons.
    — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Third, although North Korea does have an biological weapons program, it’s been eclipsed by the country’s nuclear program.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
  • There’s long been a conspiracy theory that the US used ticks as a biological weapon to spread Lyme disease.
    — Catherine Kim, Vox, 18 July 2019
  • Much about the arsenal is uncertain; and even less is known about the North’s chemical and biological weapons, among them the deadly VX nerve agent.
    — Daniel Nasaw, WSJ, 13 June 2018
  • Of course, the denuclearization and nuclear weapons and biological weapons is one problem in North Korea.
    — Jennifer Williams, Vox, 12 June 2018
  • The Cold War saw treaties banning chemical and biological weapons, using the environment as a weapon and placing nuclear weapons in space or on the seabed.
    — Paul Scharre, Time, 25 Sep. 2017
  • But Serhiy Komisarenko, one of Ukraine’s leading experts in biological weapons, said the money was never enough to cease the flow of personnel.
    — Simon Shuster / Dnipro, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
  • In its initial form, the lab leak theory held that the Chinese government deliberately created the virus as a biological weapon.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • Lyme disease began as a biological weapon, one theory suggested.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • In addition, all three officials said, the proposal would give the North three more years to improve its arsenal, which includes chemical and biological weapons.
    — John Walcott, Time, 4 Oct. 2019
  • There were some areas of broad agreement in the report, including that the virus was not developed as a biological weapon and that Chinese officials did not know about the virus before the outbreak occurred.
    — Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2021

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