epidemic

Example Sentences

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Steve describes losing hours to online clips and feeling self-loathing; he views it as an epidemic among retirees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

At the same time, chronic pain remains a widespread and costly condition, often described as a 'silent epidemic.'

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

In 2017, he recovered from two cardiac arrests, then became mired in controversy two years later when he became the public face of arms company Glock, despite an epidemic of gun violence in the US.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

A scruffy-faced Radcliffe, twinkling accessible geniality in jeans and a sweatshirt, zips up and down the cavernous theater as though waging a one-man campaign against the isolation epidemic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

All four of these traits apply to what Americans think of as the familiar acute epidemic diseases of childhood, including measles, rubella, mumps, pertussis, and smallpox.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond