How to Use contagion in a Sentence

contagion

noun
  • People have been warned to keep out of the area to avoid contagion.
  • The best way to avoid contagion is to get tested and get the vaccine.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The more people who wear masks, the more the risk of contagion is reduced.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Dropping out of the red to the orange zone does not mean the danger of contagion has passed.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Here and here and here are some examples of the contagion.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The country may now have fewer tools to fight the next contagion.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Sounds a lot like the FTX contagion that romped through the financial world.
    — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2022
  • From Portugal to Spain to Greece, the flames have spread like a contagion.
    — Wired, 21 July 2022
  • Yet, despite the paths of contagion leading back to the U.S., the disease was contained.
    — Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • Athens is the only one of Ohio’s 88 counties that has dropped out of the red zone of contagion as of Wednesday.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The contagion card forces another player to pick up all of the cards in the center pile.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The first test for the biggest companies in tech will be contagion from their peers.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • Even if the effect is minor, the fear of contagion will roil U.S. markets for at least a while.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • One sailor died in the contagion, and its captain was dismissed.
    — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The worst fears of an unchecked financial contagion have eased.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Sobyanin said the city reversed the decision because the pace of contagion has slowed.
    — Fox News, 16 July 2021
  • That type of worry, though, spreads like a contagion to voters.
    — John Blake, CNN, 22 June 2024
  • At the same time, the chaos caused by the coup has created conditions ripe for contagion.
    — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 23 July 2021
  • The fear of contagion — the viral spread of suicide through social groups — hung over the school like a miasma.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • By the time the company and the FDA worked out their differences, the case count had already reached 94, a marker of the rapid spread of contagion.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • In fairness, the Fed made a few mistakes along the way, with the most notable being its failure to stop the contagion of bank failures in the 1930s.
    — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
  • So far that kind of contagion doesn’t appear to be taking place.
    — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
  • There is an emotional contagion in which the mere reactions of players can shape the events on the field—for good and bad.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
  • For the last few months, there has been a steady drip of coronavirus contagion at the edges of Trump World, but none of them have breached the inner sanctum.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Workers are striking in shifts, so as to avoid the contagion risk of large crowds in front of their warehouses.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Nowhere was the lack of leadership seen as more crucial than in testing, a key to breaking the chain of contagion.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Her partner, who had been around her unmasked at the height of contagion, never got sick.
    — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Whether the parades roll will be determined by the state of the contagion and decisions made at City Hall.
    — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • For example, a return to using low carbon public transport with greater hygiene care while not impacting risks of future contagions.
    — Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Further analysis showed that the closer a chimp was to another peeing chimp, the more likely the probability of that chimp peeing as well—evidence of social contagion.
    — Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025

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