How to Use endemic in a Sentence

endemic

adjective
  • Which country in the world has the most endemic bird life?
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
  • By the time John bammed, crime was already endemic to the Black Axe.
    Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • But this is like the endemic state of what this virus will always be.
    CBS News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Be sure to keep an eye out for the Coral Pink tiger beetle, which is endemic to the park.
    Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
  • On land, the islands are home to many sea and land birds, endemic reptiles, and unique plants.
    Ng Staff, National Geographic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Cholera is endemic in the area, the United Nations said.
    Emma Bubola, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Meaning, when the pandemic will end, and the health crisis shifts to an endemic phase more along the lines of the flu.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Even the saguaro cacti, which are endemic to the Sonoran Desert, can’t cool off enough at night.
    Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The problem is not just endemic to the album side of the Billboard charts either.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 14 June 2017
  • Many of China’s wild species are endemic, meaning that they are found nowhere else in the world.
    Vanessa Hull, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The disease there has become endemic, with a death rate as high as 10%.
    Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2022
  • But perhaps a look at the endemic circumstances that have brought the world to this point is in order.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 2019
  • There is the story for the world, and there is the story endemic to whatever country is telling the tale.
    Tim Layden, SI.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Kashmir is now a witch’s brew of endemic scare and suspense.
    Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Of course, Connecticut hasn’t yet reached the endemic stage.
    Alex Putterman, courant.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Deaths have been rare, though a handful of people have died in countries where the virus isn’t endemic.
    Dominique Mosbergen and Jon Kamp, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The device helps control the tremors endemic to Parkinson’s.
    Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 31 July 2017
  • And the mice themselves eat endemic species and compete with other wildlife that's native to the island.
    Christina Maxouris, CNN, 8 July 2019
  • And the fact that people cannot expect to avoid the virus forever in an endemic scenario has not changed.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Scrub jays, which are endemic, or unique, to Florida, aren’t the only rare wildlife at Duette.
    Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Wired says the research looks at these flaws as a problem endemic to Android.
    Shoshana Wodinsky, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
  • That blindness is endemic, in the Met and everywhere else.
    Holly Thomas, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The species is endemic to east Asia and has been brought over to North America as an exotic species.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • But the other part is the endemic, grinding poverty and the corruption.
    Los Angeles Times En Español, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Harris said the original tree died a few years ago, a victim of endemic Prague-area floods.
    Irv Leavitt, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
  • Malaria was once endemic in the US, but was eradicated by the 1970s.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 June 2023
  • Put simply, talent scarcity will be endemic to the labor market in the years and decades ahead.
    Sander Van 't Noordende, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Frustrated with the lack of movement around the issues that are endemic in our country.
    Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Although the two types of mosquitoes that transmit dengue are found in some counties, the virus is not endemic in the state, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The yellow-crested helmetshrike is endemic to the western slopes of the Albertine Rift of Central Africa.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024

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