contagion

Example Sentences

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Banks are being hit with fears of contagion from private-credit losses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

As funds are gated, investors have been running to raise liquidity from other funds, creating a contagion effect.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Private credit markets are on that watchlist, he said, though he sees no signs yet of the kind of contagion that would threaten the system at large.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Ducournau wants to illustrate how fear itself can be a deadly contagion, a reality anyone who lived through those terrible times already knows too well.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

In the view of Ramenofsky and Patricia Galloway, an anthropologist at the University of Texas, the source of contagion was very likely not De Soto’s army but its ambulatory meat locker: his three hundred pigs.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann