contagion

Example Sentences

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Some converts had practical reasons: marrying into the church, the examples of close family and friends, or a more general social contagion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

As funds are gated, investors have been running to raise liquidity from other funds, creating a contagion effect.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Private credit markets are on that watchlist, he said, though he sees no signs yet of the kind of contagion that would threaten the system at large.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

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 • Mar. 26, 2026

Suppose that the peoples of the Americas had, in some parallel world, understood the concept of contagion and been prepared to act on it.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann