How to Use conjugate in a Sentence

conjugate

1 of 2 verb
Definition of conjugatenext
Synonyms for conjugatenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • For many, decoding Trump is like conjugating irregular verbs in Latin.
    — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 16 May 2017
  • 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
  • Those mind-numbing exercises in high school—factoring polynomials, conjugating verbs, memorizing the periodic table—were possibly the opposite: mind-sensitizing.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • For many, decoding Trump is like conjugating irregular verbs in Latin.
    — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 16 May 2017
  • 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
  • Those mind-numbing exercises in high school—factoring polynomials, conjugating verbs, memorizing the periodic table—were possibly the opposite: mind-sensitizing.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • For many, decoding Trump is like conjugating irregular verbs in Latin.
    — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 16 May 2017
  • 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
  • Those mind-numbing exercises in high school—factoring polynomials, conjugating verbs, memorizing the periodic table—were possibly the opposite: mind-sensitizing.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
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conjugate

2 of 2 noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • AChE conjugate—if military labs were willing to share samples.
    — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2018
  • 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 second is cultural: the idea that car travel conjugates American life in its healthiest and most distinctive forms.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • Check out Westside's own materials on putting the conjugate method into practice.
    — Men's Health, 3 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This property of conjugates helps us compute the reciprocal of any complex number.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • The other, the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, protects against 13 types (PCV-13 or Prevnar).
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 May 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
  • 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 company markets an antibody-drug conjugate called Elahere used to treat ovarian cancer.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 30 Nov. 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
  • Another possibility is a Novichok conjugate of serum albumin, the most abundant protein in blood.
    — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 8 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Merck and Daiichi Sankyo will develop and commercialize three antibody drug conjugate candidates—patritumab deruxtecan, ifinatamab deruxtecan and raludotatug deruxtecan—worldwide.
    — Ben Glickman, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Pfizer had previously developed antibody-drug conjugates before unloading its operation.
    — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • 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

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