contagion
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While France’s fiscal crisis is likely to get worse before it gets better, the risk of contagion appears limited, Andrew Kenningham at Capital Economics says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
He said Boutcher believed this would have carried an "unacceptable risk" of serious and prolonged disorder, with "a wider contagion effect".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Three decades after predicting the Asian crisis of 1997, one strategist pinpoints similarities between the financial contagion that spread across Asian economies then and the current AI investment boom that he thinks is a bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Trouble with its debt "could trigger contagion" across AI finance as a whole, he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Thus we removed ourselves as best we could from the ring of contagion.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Whether caused by geopolitical conflict, health contagions or extreme weather, supply-chain crises will likely be a permanent fixture of the economy until global supply chains build in greater resilience.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Long ties, which are created through randomly rewired edges that make them 'longer,' accelerate the spread of social contagions.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
The idea is that NTT's e-nose can be used not just to sniff out any contagions, but also how fresh - or not - a foodstuff is.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
After the Ebola epidemic, the world invested in virus-testing equipment and training scientists so that African countries could identify contagions as soon as cases popped up.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2023
Slant continues his vigilant practices against its depredations; but other contagions have settled upon us in its wake.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing contagion
"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
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