How to Use epidemic in a Sentence

epidemic

1 of 2 adjective

• The idea came at a time of near epidemic levels of gun violence.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• The anti-epidemic agency didn't respond to questions sent to its office by fax.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Dec. 2022
• The dream of running off to live the good life in a postcard perfect town in the mountains or by the sea often reaches epidemic proportions near the end of summer.
  — John Rasmus, National Geographic, September 2004
• Power abuses are epidemic in an industry where employment is contingent and hard to obtain and much of the workforce is in the first bloom of youth.
  — Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
• But carjackings are up, and thefts from vehicles are epidemic.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
• Severe anti-epidemic measures imposed in response to the outbreak have been lifted, the agency said.
  — Stella Kim, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
• Calls to Beihai’s anti-epidemic task force and tourism agencies went unanswered.
  — Linda Lew, Bloomberg.com, 22 July 2022
• Officials also say the number of evictions is soaring to an epidemic level as rents continue to rise.
  — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• When a disease reaches epidemic levels, the first obligation for leaders in any country is to protect their own people.
  — Andrew Natsios, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2020
• The result was that thousands of unknowing carriers spread the viral plague while the government covered up its epidemic proportions.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
• Taiwan formed an epidemic response command center and in late January; that same week, the island confirmed its first case.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 4 Mar. 2020
• Indeed, my own brand of germaphobia has kept pace with the decades and, during periodic epidemic panics,...
  — Grace Paine Terzian, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2020
• Global stock markets have also sunk as investors face up to the reality of a return to pre-epidemic monetary policy.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 29 Jan. 2022
• Telangana has not enacted strict anti-epidemic measures, only a curfew at night.
  — CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
• The economic fallout isn’t something epidemic models address, Longini says—but that may have to change.
  — Martin Enserink, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2020
• But the country has seemingly been spared from a major wave of infections, thanks in part to stringent anti-epidemic measures, controls on the movement of people and the border lockdown.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 20 Jan. 2021
• There is no question that communication about public business though private accounts and devices is at an epidemic level.
  — Thomas Peele, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2017
• Yet there seem to be some crucial differences between the virus that caused an epidemic 17 years ago and the one causing a global pandemic today.
  — TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2020
• Across the country, cities are imposing anti-epidemic restrictions, and households are hoarding supplies, fearing they will be locked down next.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2022
• But now, the maximum anti-epidemic measures would be relaxed and returned to normal levels, Mr. Kim said.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• Cunningham worked as an epidemic intelligence officer and has been deployed for a number public health emergencies.
  — Paula Rogo, Essence.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The epidemic year was an outlier on every measure, with the warmest winter, the warmest spring and the heaviest early rainfall in 10 years.
  — Maryn McKenna, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• The prior pessimism of most epidemic models will either be confirmed or refuted, depending on the percentages of Americans who have already weathered the virus.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• Some medical institutions were not linked to an epidemic information network and failed to report data in time, Xinhua said.
  — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2020
• Underage vaping has reached what health officials call epidemic levels.
  — NBC News, 12 Dec. 2019
• The razing has reached truly epidemic proportions in the Park Cities, where there is zero landmark protection for even the most significant works of architecture.
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2022
• Collier said that overall, activity on Dauphin Island had rebounded to very near pre-epidemic levels.
  — al, 23 June 2020
• The economy may be able to return to pre-epidemic levels by the end of next year or early 2022, Scholz said.
  — Mariajose Vera, Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• While the officials agreed to ease some anti-epidemic measures, including revoking a weekend curfew and opening government offices, schools will remain shut.
  — Rhea Mogul and Vedika Sud, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
• This week, a video widely shared online appeared to show an anti-epidemic worker in Shanghai beating a corgi to death on the street after its Covid-positive owner had been taken away.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022

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epidemic

2 of 2 noun

• Putin this week said the country had passed the peak of the epidemic.
  — Henry Meyer, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2020
• But the face—and race—of the opioid epidemic has changed in the past decade.
  — Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2022
• There was a lot of meth use and the start of an opioid epidemic.
  — J.j. Anselmi, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2020
• The offensive woes have been an epidemic since the turn of the new year.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2018
• The opioid epidemic is the major cause of the surge, the agency says.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2018
• Until now the world has turned a blind eye to this epidemic.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 17 July 2019
• The epidemic was on the wane, and the trial of Galileo was about to begin.
  — Hannah Marcus, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• The workplace has not been spared in this epidemic, of course.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 7 Feb. 2020
• The increase of the epidemic has slowed down their plotlines as well.
  — Bea Lewis, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• The shape on the epidemic curve is a classic spike — sharply up, then sharply down.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
• Because quarantine is a way to cut off the spread of the epidemic.
  — Fox News, 11 Nov. 2022
• This time at least the epidemic—and the need for a vaccine—is real.
  — Marc Siegel, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• If this epidemic is contained, the world should learn the lesson.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• The common thread for these plans from the White House is the epidemic, seems to me.
  — Larry Light, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• After the epidemic was over, the spittoons didn’t come back.
  — The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
• One of the papers claimed there was an epidemic of dog rape at dog parks and that men should be leashed like dogs.
  — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2021
• Why, in the heart of the epidemic, did things seem to be so disorganized?
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2021
• One is on the front lines helping people caught up in the heroin epidemic.
  — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• Some of my own family members and friends in the state have been hit by this epidemic.
  — Clay Marsh, STAT, 12 July 2018
• The only way to explain this cascade of pills is an epidemic of fraud.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• Decades of decline followed, in which a crack epidemic caused the murder rate to spike.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• This bill will not end the epidemic of gun violence overnight.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2022
• Can this opioid epidemic be stopped, and solved, by one man?
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 24 June 2021
• The opioid epidemic is the public health crisis of our time. . .
  — Bill Myers, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
• It was published just as the blindness epidemic was starting to peak.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2023
• In fact, the virus will be with us forever, but its epidemic force will have been sapped.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
• And as if that weren’t enough the aids epidemic was at its height when Frances met Frank.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The important part about dealing with epidemics is to deal with them early.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Mar. 2017
• These brutal losses for the Irish are part of a three-decade epidemic.
  — Terence Moore, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
• It's based on stories about epidemics of twitching among young girls.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 26 June 2014

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