Example Sentences

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“It’s terrible. It’s isolating. It’s scary. You’re not connecting with other human beings, and you are fearful of a microbiologic time bomb ticking inside you.”

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2014

Epidemiologic and microbiologic evidence strongly suggests that United Nations peacekeeping troops from Nepal imported cholera to Haiti, contaminated the river tributary next to their base through a faulty sanitation system and caused a second disaster.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2012

Doctors got the best results if they relied on a microbiologic lab test--either a two-day throat culture or the somewhat less accurate 20-min. rapid test.

From Time Magazine Archive