biological weapon
noun
: a harmful biological agent (such as a pathogenic microorganism or a neurotoxin) used as a weapon to cause death or disease usually on a large scale
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Soviet defectors later revealed the truth — the U.S.S.R. had experimented with smallpox as a possible biological weapon.
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
Alien Abyss: The Department of Alien Research is breeding a biological weapon.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2024
There is no direct evidence for this, and virologists, geneticists, and the US intelligence community largely agree that SARS-CoV-2 was not developed as a biological weapon nor was it genetically engineered.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
Despite disagreement among the agencies about which hypothesis was more likely, the intelligence community concurred that Covid-19 wasn’t developed intentionally as a biological weapon.
—Riley Griffin, Fortune, 24 June 2023
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
Alien Abyss: The Department of Alien Research is breeding a biological weapon.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2024
There is no direct evidence for this, and virologists, geneticists, and the US intelligence community largely agree that SARS-CoV-2 was not developed as a biological weapon nor was it genetically engineered.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
Despite disagreement among the agencies about which hypothesis was more likely, the intelligence community concurred that Covid-19 wasn’t developed intentionally as a biological weapon.
—Riley Griffin, Fortune, 24 June 2023
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biological weapon
noun
biological weap·on
-ˈwep-ən 
: a harmful biological agent (as a pathogenic microorganism or a neurotoxin) used as a weapon to cause death or disease usually on a large scale
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