How to Use contagion in a Sentence

contagion

noun

• People have been warned to keep out of the area to avoid contagion.
• 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
• Face coverings were emerging as one of the simplest tools available to control the contagion’s spread.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2020
• Perhaps this was hallowed ground, an open-air cemetery, or a place where victims of an epidemic were dumped to prevent contagion.
  — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• The president and several of his deputies have continued to hold holiday parties with lengthy guest lists this month, despite the risk of contagion.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• Facebook has conducted social-contagion experiments on its users without telling them.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
• Authorities said at the time that this is the period when there is the greatest risk of contagion and that reducing it allows better enforcement of the measure.
  — Sylvie Corbet, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• Of course, thanks to the persistence of the coronavirus contagion, the 200-person gathering wasn’t possible this year.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 13 Dec. 2020
• Yet Covid contagion spiraled in October, long after summer parties ended.
  — Alberto Mingardi, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
• Smaller clusters can also occur in high schools and other communities, though such contagion can be blunted with certain interventions.
  — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 31 July 2024
• While Oregon’s daily coronavirus case numbers have been dropping in recent weeks, residents in care homes remain the most vulnerable to contagion and death.
  — oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Meanwhile, the extremely low level of infection allowed China to begin its economic recovery while the rest of the world remained mired in successive waves of contagion.
  — Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024