How to Use omicron in a Sentence

omicron

noun
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  • The newest omicron strain, known as BA.2.75, has already shown up in the Bay Area.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 July 2022
  • Clydes during the last two weeks of its run in January and in the thick of the omicron variant.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The rising case count is most likely due to the spread of the B.A.4 and B.A.5 omicron subvariants.
    — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2022
  • That variant is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year.
    — Chris Megerian, ajc, 24 July 2022
  • The good news is that the numbers are still 70% below last January’s at the peak of the first omicron surge.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The landscape shifted again with the arrival in late 2021 of the omicron variant.
    — Robin Fields, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2022
  • As for the threat of the BA.2 omicron subvariant, Matthews said her cruise line is prepared.
    — Tammy Stables Battaglia, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
  • But that and a booster shot were not enough when the omicron variant swept the city in December.
    — Adam Geller, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The first edition was pushed to late 2021, only to then be hit by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And at the end of the omicron surge, ADPH stopped reporting numbers on weekends.
    — Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2022
  • While the country did get hit hard with the omicron variant earlier in the year, things have since calmed down.
    — Breanna Wilson, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • And those who survived delta faced the risk of catching the later omicron variant.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii and Luke Money, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The city has been under a strict lockdown since March amid the omicron variant outbreak.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
  • In the Northeast, where the omicron subvariants first took hold this spring, deaths climbed as cases surged.
    — Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2022
  • Late last year, the omicron variant led to yet another surge.
    — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
  • As the omicron variant of the coronavirus spread, doctors and patients scrambled to find the pills.
    — NBC News, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Wall Street had expected the loss in a quarter marred by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Monday brought word of a new omicron variant that is storming the United States.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The last one was reached in January to end a standoff that caused classes to be canceled for five days during the omicron wave.
    — Tracy Swartz, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Half of each dose targets the original virus, while the other half targets the omicron variant.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The slowing of the omicron strain's growth pattern leaves many questions unanswered as to whether there will be viral resurgence in the fall and winter.
    — Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • These risks became elevated during both the delta wave and the omicron wave.
    — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The state averaged 46 deaths a day during the onslaught of the omicron variant peak in January.
    — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The site first launched in January, when President Joe Biden pledged to give out 1 billion free rapid tests to combat the omicron surge.
    — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The latest shots were reformulated last year to target the BA.4 and BA.5 strains of omicron that were dominant in the fall.
    — Madison Muller, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • No one expects a peak nearly as high as the last one, when the omicron version of the coronavirus ripped through the population.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Apr. 2022
  • All those numbers are well below previous surges, like the first omicron wave and the deadly delta wave before it.
    — Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2022
  • That's the same financial impact as the arrival of the omicron variant had last December.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Daily new cases are up 150% from a month ago across California, though still below the height of the winter omicron wave.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2022
  • The reason the delta wave and the original form of covid seem more likely to produce such symptoms than the more recent omicron and its subvariants is not fully understood.
    — Amy Goldstein, Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2023

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