epidemiological
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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In a statement, the local government said that "no validated epidemiological evidence" had "conclusively established THQ as a source" of the outbreak.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
However, once epidemiological research on a population level developed and showed dramatically elevated rates of lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema among smokers, the weight of evidence shifted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
She added that verifying the hypothesis would require large epidemiological studies and animal research, yet this work is made more difficult by the lack of reliable animal models for long COVID.
From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025
“It turns out, bizarrely enough, they probably weren’t that far off, even though they did not have any of the epidemiological data to support it at the time,” Raichlen said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2025
Similarly, in medicine we have become used to moving back and forth between case histories and epidemiological arguments.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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