person-to-person

Example Sentences

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Days later, he learned that the severe disease typically carried by rodents may have transmitted person-to-person.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

“Those areas in Argentina are the areas where there have been a couple of very rare superspreader events, where not only is there person-to-person transmission, but person-to-person transmission involving scores of people,” he said.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

"We have to take this very seriously. We have to shake hands eye-to-eye, person-to-person, and to discuss what is best for the US and Brazil."

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

It can also spread person-to-person through contaminated food.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

Maybe that was enough for the telephone operator to help me call him person-to-person from a phone booth.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia