How to Use anti-vax in a Sentence

anti-vax

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  • But not all crunchy or scrunchy moms are completely anti-vax, Dunne said.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune Well, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Trump's pick for health agencies has history of anti-vax views.
    — Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024
  • There seems to be a limit to how anti-vax is too anti-vax in the Trump administration.
    — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The play’s style is dated, but the issues are evergreen in anti-vax America.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Partisans will look to see where the authors come down on the great public health debates of the last four years: Lockdown or not; masks or no masks; vaccine or anti-vax.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Whether or not he is confirmed, those high-profile hearings could amount to an advertisement for the anti-vax movement, some fear.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Not anti-vax enough Now that Means has been tapped to become surgeon general, such suspicions have led to a very public rift in Kennedy’s world.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 15 May 2025
  • There was definitely an uptick after Covid, in the anti-vax messaging, the anti-mask stuff.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The other is a growing anti-vax feeling, where people just don’t want to get vaccinated.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 25 July 2024
  • The result was a train wreck for legitimate science in which the anti-vax position prevailed, or such was the impression that was left.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Indeed, around 2010, the health-freedom surge began transforming anti-vax views into a core right-wing value.
    — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • She’s also been reporting on RFK Jr. and the anti-vax conspiracy ecosystem for years.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In the curious state of mind that anti-vax doctors are known for, the cold-fusion crew dug in, and its members now grouse about having been blackballed from elite journals and reputable conferences.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
  • His anti-vax group Vaccine Safety Research Foundation was an exhibitor at both events.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Fear of the Covid-19 vaccine has spurred anti-vax sentiments across the country and conspiracy theories are likely to blame for much of the resistance to the shot, NPR reported.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Such anti-vax positions are a way of outflanking former President Donald Trump from the right, Jolly added.
    — Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But his late-career excellence, and more gracious on-court demeanor the last few years, have gone a long way towards winning over the public skeptical of his Covid-era behavior and anti-vax stance.
    — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 4 Aug. 2024
  • During his presidential campaign, Kennedy tried to distance himself from the anti-vax movement.
    — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a whole disinformation-for-hire industry out there that can switch from anti-vax to anti-Ukrainian disinformation from one day to the next.
    — Konstanze Frischen, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • The Trump campaign has gone all-in on Kennedy's views in recent weeks, embracing his anti-vax rhetoric and suggesting that a vaccine ban could happen during a second Trump presidency.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • There’s the anti-vax community who associate numerous long Covid symptoms with the vaccines.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Public health experts and even his own family members have described his anti-vax work as misleading and dangerous.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Listen as Ina Pinkney, a passionate speaker who travels around the country advocating for vaccines, joins host Dana Taylor to discuss the anti-vax movement.
    — Sara Ganim, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • But if the recent past is any guide, what many dismiss as bad-faith rhetoric can quickly harden into a core ideology for a set of true believers; the anti-vax movement and the subsequent measles outbreaks are a sobering analog.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The anti-vax crowd has cited this as justification for not getting vaccinated.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The federal employees reaching out to highlight some of the nutty anti-vax ravings and other nonsense on the sites (often going against the sites’ own rules) were perfectly within their authority to make contact and ask for changes.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • There was, in fact, quite a showdown between the authorities and a significant segment of the populace, and the parliamentary vote strengthened an already active anti-vax movement.
    — Justin E. H. Smith, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • This phenomenon exploded during the pandemic, when anti-vax sentiment took hold in large parts of the wellness community.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But what the anti-vax movement during the Covid pandemic has shown is that conspiracy theories really cross all political boundaries.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
  • Onstage, Rogan paces back and forth, veering into jokes about trans athletes or being anti-vax and generally gearing his comedy for hunters, MMA fans and ballcap-wearing bros with no worries of offending, being canceled or being filmed.
    — Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023

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