How to Use microgram in a Sentence
microgram
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This week in New York City, the rate was close to 100 micrograms.
—Isabella Cueto, STAT, 7 June 2023
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Last March, a blood test revealed that Caiden had a blood lead level of 13 micrograms per deciliter.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
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His blood came back positive for lead at a rate of 35 micrograms per deciliter.
—Deborah Bloom, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
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The boosters are being tested at a 50 microgram dose, or half what is used in the current shot.
—al, 6 Aug. 2021
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These levels would be 3 micrograms per square foot on the floor and 20 micrograms per square foot for sills.
—Time, 12 July 2023
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For reference, a normal level of lead in a gram of hair is around 4 micrograms or less.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024
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In Moderna’s study, kids were given two shots of a 50 microgram dose, which is half of the dose authorized for adults.
—Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
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The children had BLLs ranging from 4 to 29 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL)—as much as eight times greater than levels that raise concern.
—Julia Landwehr, Health, 15 Nov. 2023
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Each dose is just 10 micrograms, a third of the 30 microgram dose given to adolescents and adults.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2021
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Adults receive two 30 microgram doses of the vaccine three weeks apart.
—Matthew Herper, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
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Because the full-length spike’s gene sequence was about five times as long as the fragment’s, each microgram of vaccine contained one-fifth the number of copies.
—Brendan Borrell, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2021
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The report says the concentration of fentanyl in Prince’s blood was 67.8 micrograms per liter.
—Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
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In children under 5, Pfizer and BioNTech have been testing two shots of a three-microgram dose, a small fraction of the adult dose.
—Laura Meckler, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021
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The cases in which Husel was charged with murder involved the ordering of at least 500 micrograms of fentanyl.
—NBC News, 19 Dec. 2019
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Lead experts in the United States say workers whose lead level reaches 30 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood should be removed from the source of the metal.
—Steve Fisher Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
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The Camarones had the highest levels of all at 1,000 micrograms per liter (a hundred times the safe consumption level).
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
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From their current stock of vaccine, providers will be able to simply draw up half of the 100 microgram doses that made up Moderna's first two shots.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2021
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Trace amounts of ketamine were found in Perry's stomach, but the coroner said high levels of the drug were found in his blood: 3.54 micrograms per milliliter.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2023
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Until now, the limit had been set to 100 micrograms of silica per cubic meter of air, double the new amount.
—Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 16 Apr. 2024
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The affected children's blood lead levels ranged from 4 to 29 micrograms per deciliter.
—CBS News, 13 Nov. 2023
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The children affected by this recall had 4 to 29 micrograms per deciliter.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
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The second booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine would use the same, 30 microgram dose as the first three administered.
—Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
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At first, clinicians tried the 10 microgram dose for the younger children but some experienced mild fever.
—Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 11 Feb. 2022
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The murder charges were brought only in cases that involved fentanyl doses of at least 500 micrograms.
—Kantele Franko, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2019
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In September, a test revealed Jaxson’s blood lead levels were 5.2 micrograms of lead per deciliter.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
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But in the antibody realm, two doses of Pfizer’s three-microgram dose, which is still in trials, fell short in the 2-to-4-year-old group, prompting the company to add a third shot for all kids younger than 5.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2022
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The average for the surrounding area was higher, 3.3 micrograms per deciliter.
—Martin Schiavenato, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
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Test results from East Lauderdale ranged from none detected to 120 micrograms per liter.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2019
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The agency uses a level of 3.5 micrograms per deciliter to identify kids with higher blood lead levels than most.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
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Lawyers say up to 100 micrograms of the synthetic opioid would be normal for a patient, depending on their size and the circumstances.
—NBC News, 5 June 2019
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