New World

Example Sentences

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The New World screwworm has prompted cattlemen to use drones and step up inspections to protect herds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Paine’s radicalism did not spring forth like an exotic New World plant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Agency for International Development, for example, was a program monitoring the advance of the New World screwworm north from Central America.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The plan to prevent a US outbreak of the New World Screwworm focuses on deploying hundreds of millions of genetically-altered sterile flies.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

The new word spread almost as fast as news of the New World.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton