How to Use conjugate in a Sentence

conjugate

1 of 3 adjective
  • One dose of meningococcal conjugate vaccine at age 11 or older.
    — Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Admission to day cares would not require those vaccines, either, nor the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine was licensed in 2000.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • The Hib conjugate vaccine was licensed for use in infants in 1990, and within five years Hib disease in young children dropped by more than 99%.
    — Jake Scott, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The Hib conjugate vaccine was licensed for use in infants in 1990, and within five years Hib disease in young children dropped by more than 99%.
    — Jake Scott, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Data from one antibody drug conjugate from Merck and partner Kelun is also being presented this weekend at the ASCO meeting.
    — Angelica Peebles, CNBC, 31 May 2026
  • In the 1980s, scientists developed a method called conjugate vaccine technology, in which sugars on bacterial pathogens are linked to proteins that the immune system – even in infants – can more easily respond to.
    — Jake Scott, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • In the 1980s, scientists developed a method called conjugate vaccine technology, in which sugars on bacterial pathogens are linked to proteins that the immune system – even in infants – can more easily respond to.
    — Jake Scott, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The Department of Health has started the rulemaking process of repealing requirements for Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for public school attendance.
    — Ana Goñi-Lessan, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Since then, the Department of Health has started the rulemaking process of repealing requirements for Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for public school attendance.
    — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Earlier this month, the Department of Health had a meeting during which officials unveiled a proposal to drop the requirement for the chickenpox; the Hepatitis B; the Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib; and the Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • This shipment carried over 500,000 doses of pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccines (PCVs), for use in Côte d'Ivoire’s routine childhood immunization program.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • These early vaccines included diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis (DTaP); Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib); pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV); and the inactivated poliovirus vaccines (IPV).
    — Dr. Crystal Richards, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • On July 10, 2025, UNICEF personnel log the delivery of a shipment of pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccines (PCVs) in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026

conjugate

2 of 3 verb
  • Can you conjugate the verb “to go”?
  • The examples that conjugate that three abound, but a couple spring to mind.
    — Hec Paris Insights, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Her legs were covered in razor nicks incurred while conjugating irregular verbs and gendering the nouns, der, die, das.
    — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper's Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
  • This is especially true with the sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter all conjugating in your sign—the cosmic gang is on your side.
    — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 1 June 2024
  • For many, decoding Trump is like conjugating irregular verbs in Latin.
    — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 16 May 2017
  • The question is self-reported, and since Irish is compulsory in school, everyone who can conjugate a verb or order a cup of tea in Irish is entitled to answer yes.
    — Big Think, 4 May 2026
  • Gambling was a hard no and celibacy was expected, except for married couples who were permitted to conjugate for purposes of procreation — but only after chanting for five hours.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
  • One of the distinguishing fats is conjugated linoleic acid or CLA, which some regard as the clearest indicator of grass-feeding.
    — Peter Whoriskey, kansascity.com, 8 May 2017
  • Traditional teaching methods, like asking students to conjugate a verb on the spot or translate a complex Latin passage in front of their peers, can be tedious at best and nail-bitingly nerve-racking at worst.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But the book’s ruminative watchfulness is unsuccessfully conjugated in this overly sedate play with music, which has the feel of a song cycle, though sung by the fine cast with gorgeous, lonely sorrow.
    — Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
  • With nouns that are masculine, feminine and neutral, verbs that conjugate heavily and an extremely strict syntax, German may appear insurmountable to start with.
    — John Malathronas, CNN, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Limited in range but emotionally enlightening, the instruction resonantly conjugates the way language makes and unmakes us.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • For example, another scene in the series depicts several couples conjugating simultaneously in a common room full of bunk beds, which definitely never happened.
    — Jane Borden, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Relationship energy intensifies towards the middle of the month, as Mercury and Mars conjugate in your relationship sector, pushing to have bigger conversations or perhaps entertain commitments that require you to venture outside of your comfort zone.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025

conjugate

3 of 3 noun
  • Some of these have been worthy of the hype, such as the new antibody-drug conjugates for certain cancers.
    — Thomas Goetz, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The new treatment belongs to a growing class of medicines called antibody-drug conjugates.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Antibody-drug conjugates take a more focused approach.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • AChE conjugate—if military labs were willing to share samples.
    — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Check out Westside's own materials on putting the conjugate method into practice.
    — Men's Health, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Hib, pneumococcal conjugate, polio, measles, mumps and rubella, as well as chickenpox.
    — Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Cyanobacteria is currently used in one type of drug called an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC).
    — Brittany Edelmann, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Seagen is a leader in developing a type of medicine called antibody-drug conjugates, or ADCs.
    — Naomi Kresge, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Seagen, which helped pioneer a class of cancer therapy known as antibody drug conjugates that attack tumors with toxic agents, was up 10%.
    — WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Among the itineraries will be at least 3 conjugate pairs; additionally, the number of coins in the two groups in each pair must be of different parity.
    — Nicholas Diaco, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The company markets an antibody-drug conjugate called Elahere used to treat ovarian cancer.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This has been the year of the antibody-drug conjugate, a cancer-treating technology with a long history that is suddenly en vogue among the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Another possibility is a Novichok conjugate of serum albumin, the most abundant protein in blood.
    — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The drug being tested, known as SC-007, is a type of antibody-drug conjugate, designed to home in on malignant cells while sparing healthy tissues.
    — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Newer chemotherapy drugs called antibody-drug conjugates already use this technique, directing chemotherapy agents that are too strong to give intravenously precisely where they are needed.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Already before the pandemic, the school required vaccines — such as the tetanus shot and the meningococcal conjugate vaccine — that the other BYU campuses don’t.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 July 2021
  • The long knock on Seattle Genetics has been its reliance on Adcetris, an antibody-drug conjugate approved to treat two different types of lymphoma that is not quite a commercial blockbuster.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Now, students entering the 12th grade must receive a second dose of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine, or MCV, to protect against meningitis.
    — Rita Giordano, Philly.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Similarly, to trigger more robust protection in the elderly, a shot of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is boosted by one that contains a pneumococcal polysaccharide.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Haemophilus influenzae type b, pneumococcal conjugate, and Hepatitis B.
    — Tommy Beer, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Given an itinerary ∂, ‘‘conjugate itinerary’’, denoted by ∂, is the unique itinerary in which all R’s are replaced by L’s, and all L’s are replaced by R’s.
    — Nicholas Diaco, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Simmons especially latched on to a Soviet method that became known as conjugate training, a regimen based on rotating variations of the primary competition lifts, to build strength and to stave off stasis.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Harnessing this technology, called antibody-drug conjugates, Seagen has won regulatory approval for drugs that treat Hodgkin lymphoma as well as bladder, cervical and breast cancer.
    — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The model was applied in the early 2000s to spur the development and distribution of an affordable pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for low-income countries.
    — Lisa Held, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The deal helps Pfizer, flush with cash but in need of new sources of revenue due to declining sales of Covid treatments, by adding a lineup of cancer drugs called antibody-drug conjugates that work by delivering chemotherapy directly to tumors.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The other, the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, protects against 13 types (PCV-13 or Prevnar).
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 May 2021
  • Pfizer had previously developed antibody-drug conjugates before unloading its operation.
    — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Under fairly general assumptions, the most likely history of a fluctuation out of equilibrium is simply the CPT conjugate of the most likely way a system relaxes back to equilibrium.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2011
  • The new recommendations also add the use of PCV15, a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine used to treat bacterial infection recently approved for use in children.
    — Janelle Chavez, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Pfizer’s application for its latest pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, the backbone of its huge vaccine business, received priority review from the FDA for a potential approval for adults by June.
    — Nathan Vardi, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021

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