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sickness that can be passed from one person, plant, or animal to another
The rumors spread like a contagion.
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Recent Examples of contagion
Genesis, once a business at the heart of DCG, was among the multiple casualties in the industry contagion set off by the collapse of FTX.
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Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
Maintaining composure under stress can prevent emotional contagion, where negative emotions spread throughout the group.
—Scott Hutcheson, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The emergency declaration allows the governor to release state funds and other resources to help state and local authorities hire staff and issue contracts to combat the contagion.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2024
And then there's like, the people who won't admit that some of this is social contagion, some of this is just a TikTok trend that got out of hand.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
Maintaining composure under stress can prevent emotional contagion, where negative emotions spread throughout the group.
—Scott Hutcheson, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The emergency declaration allows the governor to release state funds and other resources to help state and local authorities hire staff and issue contracts to combat the contagion.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2024
And then there's like, the people who won't admit that some of this is social contagion, some of this is just a TikTok trend that got out of hand.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contagion
Noun
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Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
The Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2025
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At a contentious hearing this summer over the COVID-19 response, Republicans accused him of helping fund Chinese government efforts to create the virus, hiding medical data about the pandemic and making up U.S. guidelines, all of which Fauci said was not true.—
Bart Jansen,
USA TODAY,
24 Jan. 2025
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From Mesopotamian mythologies to Y2K narratives and beyond, people have long been telling tales about the end—floods, comets, plagues, and now nuclear annihilation, rogue A.I., and, yes, more plagues.—
Ian Crouch,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2025
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The deadly deal with the devil — or in this case, vampire — unleashes a plague on the couple’s village in this remake of the 1922 German Expressionist classic.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2025
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Breathing Faster is Okay, But Trouble Breathing Isn't When kids have a fever, their heart rate is going to go up.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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These were women who were holistic, earthy, and eschewed things like giving a kid with a fever a spoonful of Tylenol.—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Contagion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contagion. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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