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Parasitic in sentence

24 examples of Parasitic in a sentence

Now, am I saying that a sizable minority of the world's population has had their brain hijacked by parasitic ideas?
And here is another example of a parasitic manipulation.
This furry little creature is a fresh young bee halfway emerged from its brood cell, and bees right now are dealing with several different problems, including pesticides, diseases, and habitat loss, but the single greatest threat is a parasitic mite from Asia, Varroa destructor.
Without this unlearning process, which results in your dreams, your brain could be overrun by useless connections and parasitic thoughts could disrupt the necessary thinking you need to do while you're awake.
And in plants, animals and humans, asymmetries often arise from parasitic infections.
These are parasitic roundworms.
This is a parasitic wasp, again, two millimeters long, slender, a very quick and sharp flier.
And in 30,000 square meters of state-of-the-art greenhouses, there, we are mass-producing those predatory mites, those minute pirate bugs, those parasitic wasps, etc.
They discover there's a worm- a virus- that is parasitic to the point of madness and death.
The frog and water lily have a parasitic relationship.
She has a nice home (with bedroom walls painted "Blackberry sorbet"), expensive tastes and a nasty parasitic attitude to match.
Leaving aside the tired and seedy clichés of the death row genre, which this film wallows in, and the unpleasant evocation of the crucifixion, this film is just plain inaccurate, a bit-part player's parasitic exploitation of her tiny role in a bigger story.
On Starliner Island, you have luxury high-rise living with deluxe accommodations, including a delicatessen, a boutique, a doctor and a dentist, dry cleaning, and parasitic sexually transmitted slugs that are taking over the population.
Between her Playboy jobs and her marriage to the 90 year old billionaire, Smith has apparently socked away enough money that she can live in a nice house with a couple of parasitic friends and spend her time shopping, partying, and deciding who will have sex with her lardy side of beef.
They started with the genome of Mycoplasma mycoides, a parasitic bacteria that infects cattle and goats, and also a close relative of Mycoplasma genitalium, which has the fewest genes – just 525 – known among free-living bacteria.
So, no matter how large a weight we place on their happiness relative to the happiness of others – whether we regard them as praiseworthy captains of industry who merit their high positions, or as parasitic thieves – we simply cannot do anything to affect it by raising or lowering their tax rates.
It can be difficult to grasp the fact that we live in an overwhelmingly parasitic world.
The result is a mix between a criminal organization and a privatized, parasitic state.
Very high temperatures in hot regions may reduce snail populations, which have a role in transmitting schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease.
To many experts, Trump’s behavior – grandiose self-regard, pathological lying, lack of remorse or guilt, expressive shallowness, parasitic lifestyle, impulsiveness, failure to accept responsibility for his own actions, and short-term marital relationships – are symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder.
Democratic politics, we thought, would check the rising power of a largely parasitic economic over-class, especially if its influence caused governments to fail to live up to their commitments to provide full employment with increasing – and increasingly shared – prosperity.
Therefore, the primary solution to the problem of poverty must, paradoxically, be to cut parasitic public expenditures.
Caused by the filarial worm, elephantiasis is a parasitic infection that can cause horrific swelling of the legs and scrotum.
Thanks to new programs of oral rehydration and improved water and sanitation, we have seen marked gains in treating dysentery and other parasitic diseases, contributing to a 27% decline between 1990 and 2007 in mortality rates for children under five.