How to Use spillover in a Sentence

spillover

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  • Put a pan under the pie to catch any spillovers.
  • New technology has a positive spillover effect into countless fields.
  • And stopping those spillovers hasn’t seen much progress.
    — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Be sure to cover the top of your blender with a dish towel in case there’s spillover.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And then think about what the spillover effects of such a prolonged office slump might be.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • On the Edge The moment in which a virus jumps from an animal to a human is called spillover.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The schools also saw some spillover gains in students’ math achievement.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The spillover effect of the crisis might have a profound influence on the market.
    — Alfred Cang, Fortune, 6 June 2022
  • Cass sees a huge spillover effect from Adams to local opinions.
    — Max Rivlin-Nadler, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Nervous investors have rushed to gold in the past few days, worried about a spillover from the banking sector.
    — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This contact is believed to increase the risk of spillover, in which a pathogen moves from one species to another.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • The courtroom was full, and the spillover room also filled to capacity with members of the public.
    — Mo Abbas, NBC News, 6 June 2023
  • Many of those were spillover from a list for its previous watch from 2016, the Remontoire, which sold out in about two years.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Among wild birds, the spread can be very difficult to contain, posing a greater threat of spillover to other wildlife.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • Millman said she was reassured, in part, by the fact that each sign will have louvers, which will limit the amount of light spillover.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • When the disease returns to humans through secondary spillover, the disease is harder to treat.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Some — in Egypt and Lebanon — are bracing for spillover from the war at a time of serious economic turmoil.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The Russian invasion of Ukraine — and how world powers should manage the spillover to economies — will take center stage.
    — Fatima Hussein, ajc, 13 Apr. 2022
  • That’s because there’s also the inevitable spillover effects from these higher oil and gas prices.
    — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Chad shut its border with Sudan on Saturday in a bid to prevent a spillover.
    — Katharine Houreld and Bryan Pietsch, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • There is fear that the Ukraine war could create a spillover effect, with Putin working alongside Dodik to split up the fragile country.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • The work is really just trying to quantify the risk of a spillover happening.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
  • That led Plowright to focus on nutritional stress as a key player in spillover.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Just this month, a spillover caused new Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Those attacks didn’t have a significant spillover to the rest of the world, though there is precedent for that happening.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Studies have shown that spillover events are increasing.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Spoelstra said Martin expressed remorse in the locker room, glad the spillover into the stands didn’t turn more extreme.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Now, tensions in the Red Sea that are roiling shipping routes there could have bigger spillover effects for Europe.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The findings are consistent with the scenario that Worobey and his colleagues put forward, in which at least two spillover events occurred at the market.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The three most likely sources of spillover are bats, mammals and arthropods, especially ticks.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023

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