How to Use omicron in a Sentence

omicron

noun
  • The county was among the first in the state to get hit by the omicron surge.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Times are tough again for live music because of the omicron variant.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2022
  • But the omicron variants more often leads to milder illness than delta.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 8 Jan. 2022
  • And there’s no guarantee that the next variant will be like omicron.
    — al, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Late last year, the omicron variant led to yet another surge.
    — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The business is still losing money, though, and the omicron surge did not help.
    — David Wessel, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
  • But the reason wasn’t just that omicron overwhelmed the state’s test supply.
    — Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
  • And those who survived delta faced the risk of catching the later omicron variant.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii and Luke Money, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • While the country did get hit hard with the omicron variant earlier in the year, things have since calmed down.
    — Breanna Wilson, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • The meeting has been postponed because of the omicron variant.
    — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Clydes during the last two weeks of its run in January and in the thick of the omicron variant.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2022
  • But that and a booster shot were not enough when the omicron variant swept the city in December.
    — Adam Geller, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The city has been under a strict lockdown since March amid the omicron variant outbreak.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
  • These risks became elevated during both the delta wave and the omicron wave.
    — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The omicron variant has been seen in about 20 states so far, according to news reports.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The omicron variant has pushed new case levels to record highs in Mat-Su within the past few weeks.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • In the Northeast, where the omicron subvariants first took hold this spring, deaths climbed as cases surged.
    — Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2022
  • All those numbers are well below previous surges, like the first omicron wave and the deadly delta wave before it.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Half of each dose targets the original virus, while the other half targets the omicron variant.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • As the omicron variant of the coronavirus spread, doctors and patients scrambled to find the pills.
    — NBC News, 14 Apr. 2022
  • After the emergence of the omicron variant led to a sell-off last week, stocks are now on pace for a solid weekly rebound.
    — Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Monday brought word of a new omicron variant that is storming the United States.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Wall Street had expected the loss in a quarter marred by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The landscape shifted again with the arrival in late 2021 of the omicron variant.
    — Robin Fields, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The good news is that the numbers are still 70% below last January’s at the peak of the first omicron surge.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The last one was reached in January to end a standoff that caused classes to be canceled for five days during the omicron wave.
    — Tracy Swartz, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The slowing of the omicron strain's growth pattern leaves many questions unanswered as to whether there will be viral resurgence in the fall and winter.
    — Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • No one expects a peak nearly as high as the last one, when the omicron version of the coronavirus ripped through the population.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The first edition was pushed to late 2021, only to then be hit by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And at the end of the omicron surge, ADPH stopped reporting numbers on weekends.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 1 Aug. 2022

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