contagion

Example Sentences

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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

Even to be connected to a suppressive person makes you a potential trouble source, so it’s almost like a contagion.

From Salon

However, some on Wall Street believe these concerns are overblown, and represent a contagion of fear.

From Barron's

And if the war is protracted, the greater the risk of not just the damage to individual countries, but of contagion and global spillovers.

From BBC

Currie referred to “molecular contagion” whereby the ripple effect of the closure of the Strait Of Hormuz is spreading out around the world.

From MarketWatch