new strain

collocation in English

meaningsofnewandstrain

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new
adjective
uk
/njuː/us
/nuː/
recently created or having started to ...
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strain
noun
uk
/streɪn/us
/streɪn/
a force or influence that stretches, pulls, or puts pressure on something, sometimes ...
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(Definition ofnewandstrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This sudden appearance of anewstrainof the virus is termed antigenic shift.
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This emergence of anewstraincan most probably be used to explain the high number of registered outbreaks presented in this study.
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The antinomians represented anewstrainof puritanism, one developed in conscious contradistinction to the rigorous asceticism of mainstream puritan piety.
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One might speculate that as youths' "eyes are opened" to a harsh emotional family climate, their attachment system comes undernewstrain-the resulting conflict produces acute inner pain.
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In the 1980s, anewstrainof sorghum was introduced, accepted as more productive, but believed to lack the spiritual properties which made customary sorghum beer effective.
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It is not true where anewstrainof salmonella is brought in from outside sources.
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I understood him to say that the subsection will be used to prevent anewstrainof dog coming in.
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We are also considering further action in addition to measures that we have already taken to tackle thenewstrainof salmonella.
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We are faced with anewstrainthat has arisen not only in this country but in others.
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It may be anewstrainof cambylobacter.
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Is he saying that anewstrainof dog created within our own dog society would come under paragraph (c)?
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There may be circumstances, however unlikely, in which people in this country breed or seek to breed a particularly dangerousnewstrainof dog.
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Unfortunately, it failed as thenewstrainof the disease was already too well entrenched and was spreading too rapidly.
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He wished to introduce anewstrainof tobacco.
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Thisnewstrainof the disease has a new neuropathology.
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It is believed that thisnewstrainis causing the problem in younger people.
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A flu pandemic involves the emergence of a completelynewstrainof influenza virus and is a global phenomenon.
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So far, 12 have shown evidence of anewstrain—viscerotropic leishmaniasis— which does not show up in ordinary blood tests.
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It will impose anewstrainupon families.
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It looks as if we may be dealing with anewstrainof the virus capable of infecting large numbers of animals before being observed.
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