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biological weapon

American  
[bahy-uh-lahj-i-kuhl wep-uhn] / ˌbaɪ əˈlɑdʒ ɪ kəl ˈwɛp ən /

noun

biological weapons plural
  1. bioweapon.


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Democratic and Republican senators voiced alarm this week about artificial intelligence's potential use to create a biological weapon.

From Reuters Jul. 27, 2023

The virus was not developed as a biological weapon, and it probably wasn’t genetically engineered.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 1, 2023

The U.S. government has over 200 million doses of ACAM2000 stockpiled in case of a biological weapon attack of smallpox.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2022

The intelligence community has concluded that the virus was not developed as a biological weapon.

From New York Times Oct. 29, 2021

In one, a mad scientist used HeLa as a biological weapon to spread rabies; another featured yellow house paint made of HeLa cells that could talk.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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