contagious
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The lens is always — always — zooming until Ten’s stress becomes contagious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
The trio of traitors had been tasked with being as boring as possible, and yawned theatrically in one of the castle's communal rooms in the hope that their apparent fatigue would be contagious.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
This is the most dangerous and contagious form of plague, infecting the lungs, and the only form that can be spread from one person to another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Several Russian media outlets reported she had died from pneumonic plague, a highly contagious form of the deadly disease, and that dozens of people had been quarantined.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Like Girard, Dr. Devèze was French; like Girard, he did not believe the fever was contagious; and like Girard, he did not believe in the Rush cure.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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