How to Use bioweapon in a Sentence

bioweapon

noun
  • And which types of microbes would most likely be used as bioweapons?
    — R. Daniel Bressler, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
  • The only firm conclusion was that the virus was not a bioweapon.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Others called it a Chinese bioweapon.
    — Katrine Wallace, STAT, 8 May 2026
  • There’s still hope, though, that Frenchie can make a supe bioweapon to kill Homelander.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 11 July 2024
  • Another level is something that tells you how to make a bioweapon.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Some have questioned the seriousness of the threat posed by bioweapons.
    — R. Daniel Bressler, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
  • The bill includes funds for biocontainment labs, not bioweapons labs.
    — Cate Martel, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Who is also the guy who gave the Tesla a bioweapon defense mode button.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 23 Mar. 2018
  • His weapon of choice is a bioweapon with the ability to infect its victims in a virus-like fashion.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Analysts do not believe the virus was developed as a bioweapon.
    — Nomaan Merchant, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Some apparently think it should be classified as a bioweapon.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The vaccines have been proven safe and effective and, no, Covid-19 was not a bioweapon.
    — Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • In government and academia, experts have ruled out the notion that it was concocted as a bioweapon.
    — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • And the claim about bioweapons labs has been disproven as a conspiracy theory.
    — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
  • But the agencies are united, the official said, in the view that the virus was not man-made or developed as a bioweapon.
    — Joby Warrick, Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The new model is released, and a terrorist uses it to construct a novel bioweapon.
    — Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Part of the reason is that bioweapons are often very difficult to detect and identify.
    — David Szondy june 27, New Atlas, 27 June 2026
  • The plague is life threatening and considered a potential bioweapon.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
  • There’s concern that they might be used as bioweapons — though for now, the potential benefits outweigh the dangers.
    — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 11 Mar. 2024
  • That’s partly because of the power of AI to lead to things like lethal cyberattacks and bioweapons.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Intelligence agencies do agree, however, that the virus was not developed as a bioweapon.
    — Ruby Cramer, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • The first three games revolve around the Metroid species, a life-sapping parasitical lifeform that acts as a bioweapon of sorts.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • The most pressing worry is that someone somewhere will use the spreading technology to create a bioweapon.
    — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • But that is stirring worries that someone somewhere will use the spreading technology to create a bioweapon.
    — Emily Baumgaertner, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • Newell does not believe that the coronavirus is a hoax, or a bioweapon created by the Chinese government.
    — Nina Jankowicz, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2020
  • By the end of the prologue, she has been thrown into the deep end of a sinister conspiracy involving a deadly bioweapon.
    — Ayana Mathis, The Atlantic, 11 May 2021
  • Perhaps the virus was created in a lab as a bioweapon, or by pharmaceutical companies to boost sales of drugs and vaccines.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Her team used bacteria that fed on glue, oil and apparently Alessandro’s phosphates as a bioweapon against centuries of stains.
    — New York Times, 30 May 2021
  • These theories contended that the virus was not part of a natural spillover, but a bioweapon created in a Chinese lab.
    — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • In the wrong hands, the power of xenobots could easily be exploited as a bioweapon, ferrying poisons instead of medicines into people.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020

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