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They would take the longest way around me to avoid bumping into me in any way, like I had some germ they could catch, like my face was contagious. (source)contagious = (of a disease) spread through contact
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Monks in desert hideaways, far from contagion; mountain goatherders who'd never mixed with the valley people; lost tribes in the jungles. (source)contagion = germs that spread a disease
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People act as if death is contagious. (source)contagious = infectious (the spread of a disease)
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I made some of you reading this yawn simply by writing the word "yawn." The people who yawned when they saw you yawn, meanwhile, were infected by the sight of you yawning — which is a second kind of contagion. (source)contagion = means of transfer or spreading something
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With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. (source)contagion = the spread
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But this was stronger: a foul, seeping contagion.† (source)
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Suddenly the boeuf boy leans away, as if unwinding is contagious.† (source)
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Although, against the sterile bandage, the hem of his undershorts looks filthy and teeming with contagion.† (source)
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Contagiousness is in larger part a function of the messenger.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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So long as conscionable and caring people are around, so long as they are not muted or exiled, so long as they remain alert in thought and action, there is a chance for contagions of the right stuff, whereby democracy becomes no longer a choice of lesser evils, whereby the right to vote is not betrayed by staying away from the polls, whereby the freedoms of speech, assembly, religion, and dissent are never forsaken.† (source)
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It's contagious and echoes all around us.† (source)
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A contagion.† (source)
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We have, in our minds, a very specific, biological notion of what contagiousness means.† (source)
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There was still another reason for this: Frau Kommandant was deathly afraid of the camp's contagions.† (source)
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The doctor had said that after twenty-four hours I would no longer be contagious, but then he was a doctor, and I didn't trust him.† (source)
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"Viral Contagion Threat," Brenda answered before Thomas could ask her.† (source)
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