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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her partner, who had been around her unmasked at the height of contagion, never got sick.
    Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The episode and potential contagion beg the question of whether Wintermute might be next to fall.
    Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • There are also two forms of contagion risk in this story.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 17 May 2021
  • The book follows three teens in a world where a new kind of contagion is spreading — happiness.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
  • In support of this link, a 2020 study found that people are more likely to catch the contagion among family and friends.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the most prominent leaders in the crypto space blame the firm's missteps for 80% of market contagion.
    Fortune, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Well, despite the turn in the calendar to the back half of 2022, little seems to have changed so far to assuage fears over contagion in the cryptoverse.
    Declan Harty, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • Months later, New York began to point the finger at Florida as a source of the contagion.
    Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 1 June 2021
  • The idea of quarantine as a check on contagion was advanced in Dubrovnik, the picturesque walled city on the Adriatic.
    Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 16 July 2021
  • But the global contagion put that decision on the back burner.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Fauci said the first big step in ending the epidemic phase of a contagion is to get it under control.
    Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2021
  • But the liquidators say the token's collapse had a foreseeable contagion effect on the rest of 3AC's portfolio.
    Lucinda Shen, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024

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