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Contract has many reasonably common, but highly diverse senses. Accordingly, it is generally recommended that you just learn the sense (or senses) that currently interest you.
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- She contracted an STD (sexually transmitted disease).
- She contracted AIDS by sharing needles.
- ...the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible... It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.George Washington (in a letter to his nephew)
- Here is a secret about my family: My sister contracted the deliria a several months before her scheduled procedure.Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
- We had to sit so close to other people there wasn’t room to breathe, if you even wanted to, being in the position to contract every kind of a germ there was.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- I contracted pleural pneumonia, in that day a killing disease.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- But he and the two other men in the apartment had a wonderful blowout, which lasted for five days, and as a result of which the industrious and unlucky one lost his job and the idle and lucky one got too sociable, and, despite his luck, contracted a social disease.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King’s Men
- If you fear that you or someone you know may have contracted deliria, please call the emergency line toll-free at 1-800-PREVENT to discuss immediate intake and treatment.Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
- In the decades before the development of the cure, the disease had become so virulent and widespread it was extraordinarily rare for a person to reach adulthood without having contracted a significant case of amor deliria nervosa.Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
- It’s not his fault I’ve changed—seen the light or contracted the deliria, depending on who you ask.Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
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