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epidemic

[ep-i-dem-ik] / ˌɛp ɪˈdɛm ɪk /




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Professional baseball has been grappling with an epidemic of arm injuries for more than a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The Zaire strain was responsible for an explosive epidemic in West Africa in 2014 that killed more than 11,300 people—the largest Ebola outbreak in history.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

“I was surprised to see so many people talking not just about the situation that Jeremy’s in, but an epidemic that small businesses are facing,” Newman said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Following a meeting of the WHO's emergency committee, he said Wednesday that the agency "assesses the risk of the epidemic as high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level".

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

It was a movie he’d watched at school, in science . . . the one about that horrible epidemic maybe?

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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