communicability

Example Sentences

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Without that communicability, the discovery would have a strange status.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

What we first notice in Koh and Tines is their extraordinary communicability.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2022

The second wave, which exploded across the country in April and May, exposed both the Delta variant’s increased communicability and India’s inability to cope.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021

The ostensible goal of these experiments—in which researchers manipulate already-dangerous pathogens to create or increase communicability among humans—is to develop tools to monitor the natural emergence of pandemic strains.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2014

Field seems to have excerpted this incautiously from the Schoolmen, who on this premiss could justify the communicability of adoration, as in the case of the saints.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson