How to Use multivalent in a Sentence

multivalent

adjective
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  • For the monarch butterfly is as multivalent a metaphor as Gandis could conjure up.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Beyond the realm of VH1, drag is a multivalent art form with a complex and stratified history.
    — Wilder Davies, Time, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The final 20 will get 50 µg of a multivalent booster candidate.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The dissonance between the soap-bubble gleam of the ideal and the jagged loneliness that lies within is the animating force at the heart of this touchingly multivalent work.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2018
  • In remembering his life and times and attempting to parse the man from the myth, audiences come closer to understanding the multivalent meanings of American culture.
    — Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2022
  • Hoge also said the company is working on a multivalent vaccine dose that would target four variants, including omicron.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Moderna hasn’t specified when a study would begin for the multivalent candidate.
    — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2021
  • China Miéville is one of those fiction writers whose multivalent imagination — with its monsters, cityscapes of the future, and battles between good and evil — is capable of making readers’ heads explode.
    — John Williams, New York Times, 7 May 2017
  • Under Iwano’s leadership, UChicago Presents became one of the most multivalent concert presenters of its size in the city, expanding its purview from classical music to encompass jazz and world music.
    — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2021
  • The reality is that the Joker already had a multivalent political identity, long before this new movie was conceived.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2019
  • In its very unconventionality as well as its focus on today’s youth, Social Sculpture is a living testament to the late multivalent talent.
    — Janelle Zara, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2022
  • For a certain section of the British population, namely white-collar office workers in London and the other major urban centers, the sandwich chain Pret a Manger has an immense, multivalent significance.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Deploying a vaccine that targets more than one variant, also known as a multivalent vaccine, could provide broader protection than the existing vaccines.
    — NBC News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Both women’s ambitious works take on multivalent subjects challenging to render in movement.
    — Claudia Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The company is taking a three-pronged approach, studying how a higher-dose booster holds up against omicron, as well as testing two other multivalent boosters and one that's specifically created to address the omicron mutations.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The gaze, a framework first employed in feminist criticism to describe the objectifying power of the male spectator, becomes something multivalent in Campt’s recasting.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The researchers also aimed to find a multivalent nanobody that neutralizes rapidly spreading variants found to resist neutralizing antibodies from convalescent sera and vaccines.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • Testing multivalent vaccine candidates in people hasn’t started yet.
    — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2021
  • If new variants circulate alongside older strains, multivalent vaccines, effective against several lineages, might even be needed.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 15 Jan. 2021
  • It’s more accurate to see them as manifestations of a lifetime’s voracious, multivalent reading and looking—inventive mental collages or marvelous pastiches of unimaginably wide-ranging sources.
    — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • On November 26, Moderna released a three-pronged plan to address Omicron that includes testing higher doses, developing multivalent vaccines, and making an Omicron-specific vaccine.
    — Yasmin Tayag, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2021

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