contagion
Example Sentences
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Other bouts of frenetic, rollercoaster volatility occurred during the Asian contagion of 1997, the dot-com crash of 2000-2001, the global financial crisis in 2008 and the pandemic in 2020.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
“But this is far from a structural contagion of any sort for the overall space economy.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
The World Health Organization has scrambled to reassure the world that the outbreak was not a repeat of the Covid pandemic, stressing that contagion was very rare.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
But WHO officials insisted that the risk of wider contagion was low "because of how the virus works".
From BBC • May 11, 2026
The people who yawned when they saw you yawn, meanwhile, were infected by the sight of you yawning — which is a second kind of contagion.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing contagion
"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Common Senses: Tact, Tang ("Touch")
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Between Shades of Gray
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