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 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
• This year, contagion fears have brought public gatherings to a to a halt.
  — Juhi Varma, Houston Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2020
• The episode and potential contagion beg the question of whether Wintermute might be next to fall.
  — Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Most mistakenly thought that, at worst, the world was facing a contagion like the virus that caused SARS.
  — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2021
• And then there's like, the people who won't admit that some of this is social contagion, some of this is just a TikTok trend that got out of hand.
  — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
• This time around, all those people are literally stuck, as a potential contagion sends the West Wing into lockdown.
  — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Feb 2025