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County officials say they eliminated the springs out of concern that bathers might become gravely ill from virulent microbes thought to flourish in the thermal pools. (source)virulent = disease-causing
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Dr. Wu explained that their DNA work required the interruption of cellular mitosis at precise instants, and therefore they kept some of the most virulent poisons in the world. (source)virulent = extremely harmful
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Just as Allied soldiers, like the cultures they came from, often held virulently racist views of the Japanese, Japanese soldiers and civilians, intensely propagandized by their government, usually carried their own caustic prejudices about their enemies, seeing them as brutish, subhuman beasts or fearsome "Anglo-Saxon devils." (source)virulently = hatefully
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they look rather like the symptoms of a skin disease, a virulent form of mange. (source)virulent = very bad
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...the consensus appears to be that that region was plagued by a particularly virulent strain of what sociologists call a "culture of honor." (source)
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This year the brown insectivorous bats inhabiting the small cave were crawling with a particularly virulent strain of rabies. (source)virulent = very bad -- perhaps very contagious
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The sample didn't just test positive; it showed that Henrietta had been infected with multiple copies of HPV-18, which turned out to be one of the most virulent strains of the virus. (source)virulent = severely harmful
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Yet on the day when I went out there to stay that summer, it was as though that casual pause at my door had left some seed, some minute virulence in this cellar earth of mine... (source)virulence = bad disease; or something harmful
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...and joined a small, virulently fundamentalist church whose preacher sometimes screams on street corners. (source)virulently = harshly
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Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tails, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out — on their peril to keep me one minute longer — with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear.† (source)
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The vaccine consisted of live rabies virus, genetically modified to be nonvirulent. (source)nonvirulent = not harmfulstandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonvirulent means not and reverses the meaning of virulent. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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This appears to be a supervirulent splice.† (source)
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What about the belief that mdr was less virulent and contagious than regular tb? (source)virulent = dangerous (bad)
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investigating the mechanism of the attenuation of virulence of microorganisms. (source)virulence = very bad -- perhaps very contagious
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He was virulently anti-American. (source)virulently = in a harsh and hateful manner
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But she flashed at me a virulency I'd never seen in her face, and as I stood there paralyzed, she gashed his throat, and he let out a sharp, choking cry.† (source)
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