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endemic

adjective as in native

adjective as in (especially diseases) common in or exclusive to an area

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An outbreak in Madagascar, where the disease is endemic, already has involved more than 100 people and killed almost half.

The findings are unlikely to surprise anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant: sexual harassment is endemic in the industry.

But The Dog surpasses simply documenting the alienation endemic in the 21st-century global village.

Indeed, a condition of rampant, endemic political corruption is known as a “kleptocracy”—literally, “rule by thieves.”

Travel from an endemic area to an under-vaccinated population in the United States is a distinct possibility.

The Iffluenza appears to become endemic here, but it has always been a scourge in the islands.

The agency of their effacement was an endemic disorder known as yellow fever.

It is endemic, and becomes, at apparently regular but distant periods, epidemic.

Unhappily endemic forms of disease went on steadily increasing in prevalence and rates of mortality.

We have not heard of any endemic in Australia; the epidemic has never visited its shores.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to endemic, such as: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, indigenous, local, and native.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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