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  • Yet just one glance at each other and we were lost, slumping on the table in helpless, contagious laughter.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I remember once Dad came, and he stood against the wall at the edge of the room like she was contagious or something.†   (source)
  • Apart from reading Golf Digest and Popular Mechanics, there isn't much to do except guess the number of contagious diseases represented in the windowless room.†   (source)
  • A contagion.†   (source)
  • But this was stronger: a foul, seeping contagion.†   (source)
  • My embarrassment was contagious.†   (source)
  • They clammed up and stood aside as Tally passed, as if she were contagious.†   (source)
  • Rumors were flying from student to student like highly contagious germs: who was going to try for Hogwarts champion, what the tournament would involve, how the students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang differed from themselves.†   (source)
  • Fear is contagious.†   (source)
  • A look I can only describe as Dauntless mania enters his eyes, but rather than recoil from it, as I might have a few weeks ago, I catch it, like it's contagious.†   (source)
  • We're probably not contagious.†   (source)
  • After fifty laps, one guy quit, and since quitting is contagious, three other boys caught the disease and walked off the court, too.†   (source)
  • Charles Wallace, holding her hand tightly, was looking around, too, and suddenly he laughed, his own, sweet, contagious laugh.†   (source)
  • Is it contagious?†   (source)
  • "It doesn't seem to be contagious.†   (source)
  • Inexplicable, seemingly undeserved misfortune is contagious.†   (source)
  • In another half second her father's hands are in her armpits, swinging her up, and Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the sidewalk in front of their apartment house, laughing together while snow sifts through the branches above.†   (source)
  • Somehow, this form of high-pitched laughter is contagious, because Mai is now giggling.†   (source)
  • His enthusiasm about whatever movie or play he had seen recently was contagious.†   (source)
  • His sadness is contagious, sending an ache over me.†   (source)
  • They trod gently outside his office and would stop a few feet from his desk as if, should they be too relaxed in his presence, what had happened to him would happen to them—as if having a dead child were contagious.†   (source)
  • If only patience were contagious like mumps.†   (source)
  • "Viral Contagion Threat," Brenda answered before Thomas could ask her.†   (source)
  • And she scurries away as if we're contagious.†   (source)
  • Beebi's laugh was that contagious.†   (source)
  • "It's not like wires are contagious," Cinder muttered to her empty booth.†   (source)
  • But his joy was contagious.†   (source)
  • Bep is still in isolation, but any day now her sister will no longer be contagious.†   (source)
  • Launching into a long story involving a French tourist, a Buddhist monk, and a particularly shaggy yak, Hall delivered the punch line with an impish squint, paused a beat for effect, then threw his head back in a booming, contagious laugh, unable to contain his delight in his own yarn.†   (source)
  • I know the deliria isn't like a cold—you can't get it from being sneezed on—but still, it's contagious, and when I woke up the day after our meeting at East End with my limbs still heavy and my head as light as a bubble and an ache in my throat that refused to go away, my first thought was that I'd been infected.†   (source)
  • Translation Are you still contagious?†   (source)
  • Contagion, why, this was worse than snakes, since you couldn't see it coming!†   (source)
  • The fair was a "contagion," a "virus," a form of "progressive cerebral meningitis."†   (source)
  • "Prisoner's condition contagious to others in cell."†   (source)
  • It was contagious.†   (source)
  • And Mrs. Daugherty, who kept her kids back from the front door like I was contagious and who didn't even answer the door.†   (source)
  • Are they contagious?†   (source)
  • This happens to people who are being disruptive, to anyone who is pestering or taping a celebrity, and to anyone who seems contagious.†   (source)
  • On average, an infected person remains contagious for about two weeks, though in some cases E. coli 0157:H7 has been found in stool samples two to four months after an initial illness.†   (source)
  • Like decorating my windowsill with flowers every day for a week when I was contagious with the chicken pox.†   (source)
  • Solomon had spoken with a contagious passion, presenting a dazzling vision of semiotics and archetypal history that had sparked in Langdon what would later become his lifelong passion for symbols.†   (source)
  • Let me remind you, Silvertongue, that you're speaking of a contagious disease," he said.†   (source)
  • His enthusiasm is contagious.†   (source)
  • Without a doubt it was Dr. Urbino's most contagious initiative, for opera fever infected the most surprising elements in the city and gave rise to a whole generation of Isoldes and Otellos and Aidas and Siegfrieds.†   (source)
  • They must've known that Clarke would be curious, but since the illness was probably contagious, they'd lied to Clarke to keep her safe.†   (source)
  • The doctor said it was pretty contagious.†   (source)
  • When Marley began to develop rough scaly patches on his elbows, I feared he was developing some rare and, for all we knew, contagious skin ailment.†   (source)
  • Sarampion's so contagious, the sisters would've never let her visit if she'd asked.†   (source)
  • The emotional release was contagious.†   (source)
  • What about the belief that mdr was less virulent and contagious than regular tb?†   (source)
  • We have a contagious epidemic.†   (source)
  • Her smile, I still believe, had never been more contagious in its joy than it was that summer.†   (source)
  • And my mascara, but only if you swear you don't have a contagious eye disease."†   (source)
  • Alex stared at her, unable to offer comfort, out of fear that grief might be contagious.†   (source)
  • Fear is contagious, and I could see my own reflected in Mahtob's eyes.†   (source)
  • The result is a kind of contagion of panic, and before long the men leading the zebras and llamas are struggling to maintain control.†   (source)
  • The contagion spread to the other carriages.†   (source)
  • Kitchen-Girl's fear is contagious, and I hurriedly pour water from the kettle into the mug on the tray.†   (source)
  • A characteristic of a lethal, contagious, and incurable virus is that it quickly gets into the medical people.†   (source)
  • No, do not worry …. it isn't contagious, but neither can I rid myself of it.†   (source)
  • They ain't contagious.†   (source)
  • Because they thought IRAN was a contagious disease.†   (source)
  • Like what was happening to me was a forest fire, or a contagious disease.†   (source)
  • One child cried and others followed, as if fear were contagious, like a disease.†   (source)
  • My grandfather, who had been a young man during the plague years, had told me that no thief would touch the possessions of a plague victim for fear of contagion.†   (source)
  • Like many people he had a gut suspicion that cancer was contagious.†   (source)
  • He is moved to do this by the paper falling elsewhere, the contagion of paper—it is giddy and unfor-mulated fun.†   (source)
  • Tostan has demonstrated that empowerment is contagious, accomplished person by person and spreading village by village.†   (source)
  • For horses, herd animals alert to clues of danger from each other, skittishness is contagious.†   (source)
  • The excitement of the evening lives on in a contagion of whispers that trickle from girl to girl.†   (source)
  • Even in sickness my niang had a sharp sense of humor, and a brilliant, contagious laugh.†   (source)
  • It was contagious.†   (source)
  • His excitement was contagious.†   (source)
  • She was stopped by two patrols and had to open all the food baskets, but the children's contagious gaiety and the innocent contents of the baskets sent all suspicion flying.†   (source)
  • I'd go with you myself, but I'm scared stiff: Insanity is contagious.†   (source)
  • Seth's smile was warm, and somewhat contagious.†   (source)
  • Because of the contagion they were not allowed to care for their families in the hospital.†   (source)
  • Some of the children watched from outside the door, keeping their distance in case whatever these people suffered from was contagious.†   (source)
  • Jessica had one of those contagious smiles that made it really hard to be negative when she was so freaking bubbly.†   (source)
  • I knew the Lightwoods were corrupted beyond hope, and that sort of corruption is contagious.†   (source)
  • As far as we can tell, the resulting virus is extremely contagious and very probably quite lethal.†   (source)
  • I called his mother to ask if I could visit him, but she said no, he was too sick, and besides what he had was contagious, even his brother and sister weren't permitted into his room.†   (source)
  • Cox was, in fact, contagious.†   (source)
  • Adams would call slavery a "foul contagion in the human character."†   (source)
  • And now 1 pray you be gone from here lest this foul contagion touch you.†   (source)
  • The company even undertook to carry samples of highly contagious bacteria and viruses between cooperating research laboratories in both the public and the military sectors.†   (source)
  • They stood around the door and the dressing table, or sat on the edges of the two worn chairs that needed upholstering, but they unconsciously pushed themselves back against the wall as if her hurt was contagious.†   (source)
  • Connor's smile was contagious, and soon the others were grinning, too.†   (source)
  • The doctors kept us away from the rest of the team because the virus was so contagious.†   (source)
  • Fear is contagious.†   (source)
  • Grandpa soon let everybody know that the contagious period was over and insisted on going to ride with her.†   (source)
  • I BELIEVE THAT FREEDOM IS CONTAGIOUS.†   (source)
  • And these carried with them their native spice and fabric, rites, contagion.†   (source)
  • And pretty soon I even start acting all silly like them (like it's contagious or something).†   (source)
  • Not because the slave had read them, but because they were written down somewhere, and other people had read them, and ideas are contagious—particularly ideas that concern the rights of man.†   (source)
  • "Well, it's contagious, you know that."†   (source)
  • It's like they're afraid I might be contagious.†   (source)
  • "Then came the Nazi occupation—my grandfather avoided having SS officers housed in the place by claiming my father had contagious yellow fever…which he didn't, but it tricked the Germans into going elsewhere.†   (source)
  • AIDS is not casually contagious!†   (source)
  • Longstreet lectured himself: depression is contagious; keep it to yourself.†   (source)
  • The contagion is already here.†   (source)
  • Very notably, with no exceptions that I know of, his experiences in the apparently divergent fields of clinical, social, and newsstand psychology had been costly for him, as though the places where he was examined had been uniformly alive with either highly contagious traumas or just plain old-fashioned germs.†   (source)
  • Once the ball started rolling, other people became energized and the excitement was kind of contagious.†   (source)
  • And hers was a loud, contagious laugh that surprised you at first, caught you right off guard and made it impossible for you to even consider not joining in.†   (source)
  • And, of course, the mysterious disease I had had might have been dormant and contagious.†   (source)
  • I'm sure Sophie missed many of the nuances of his act, but affected by the general contagion, joined me in filling Flatbush Avenue with noisy runaway laughter.†   (source)
  • It's not contagious.†   (source)
  • Racism seemed to be contagious.†   (source)
  • An officer can't look scared or tense; it's contagious.†   (source)
  • They went around six more times, and two of the little ones dropped out, struck mute by a contagious loss of memory.†   (source)
  • …discussion for the evening when all they were discussing was how much whiskey Mary could stand, and it was as if she meant that Mary was much too thirsty to wait out any more of it; and Joel gave a snort of amusement and then was caught into the contagion of this somewhat hysterical laughter, and they all roared, laughing their heads off, while Catherine sat there watching them, disapproving such levity at such a time, and unhappily suspecting that for some reason they were laughing at…†   (source)
  • Dr. Halloran says she can catch it, and Peter's going to be contagious for three weeks.†   (source)
  • It only struck the Pomona's side and bounced back; all the same, she dodged and swayed, and Poldy covered his head with his sleeve in imitation shame, while the little urchins stamped up and down beside him, laughing in a contagious-sounding joy like the orfanelli's.†   (source)
  • A contagion of laughter had spread through the room.
  • Following the French Revolution, a contagion of upheaval spread across Europe.
    contagion = situation where something spreads from one place to another (similar to the way some diseases spread through contact)
  • One of the tragedies for AIDS patients is the irrational fear of contagion through casual contact.
  • Spattergroit's really contagious, so they're not going to want to go near him.†   (source)
  • Any sort of contagious disease would spread through this place like wildfire.†   (source)
  • Maybe they too had hoped they could outrun contagion.†   (source)
  • The excitement of the crowd seemed to be contagious.†   (source)
  • And once that happens, the contagious thing gets going.†   (source)
  • But his passion for books is real and contagious.†   (source)
  • "You said before that I wasn't contagious after my body got rid of those microbes."†   (source)
  • His neighbors took great pride in their bodies and minds, and it was contagious.†   (source)
  • It's contagious and echoes all around us.†   (source)
  • SAD is an extremely contagious disease that causes total memory loss in those who contract it.†   (source)
  • But it's airborne and highly contagious."†   (source)
  • Contagious diseases, especially sexually transmitted ones.†   (source)
  • Or maybe the statue's look is contagious.†   (source)
  • "Wait, is it contagious?" asked Tyler, pretending to be afraid.†   (source)
  • Her childlike enthusiasm was contagious.†   (source)
  • But as the hour passed, his passion for the task grew and became contagious.†   (source)
  • Both of them had a kind of contagious, winning spark.†   (source)
  • He tore at his blindfold as if it were a contagious body whose disease he might catch.†   (source)
  • I always feel like I'll catch something contagious if I stay for more than an hour."†   (source)
  • Apparently, conflict was contagious, or at least in the air.†   (source)
  • Her joy over seeing her idol is contagious.†   (source)
  • Her contagious laugh reminded me of my niang's.†   (source)
  • He looked over his shoulder and saw his smile spread, contagious, over Josie's face.†   (source)
  • It's not that emotional contagion is a disease.†   (source)
  • We must strengthen our bodies that we may continue to resist contagion.†   (source)
  • He might be contagious," Severo ordered.†   (source)
  • All the others sidled a little farther away as if they were afraid our troubles might be contagious.†   (source)
  • She was worried that there was a chance something contagious was loose.†   (source)
  • Pippa laughs and it's contagious, sending us all into hysterical fits.†   (source)
  • "I find this contagion of optimism positively flabbergasting," said Enoch.†   (source)
  • When I asked why, Father said, "It's influenza, Rachel, and it's extremely contagious."†   (source)
  • The virus was extraordinarily contagious in monkeys.†   (source)
  • Not a contagious kind of sick or anything, but the kind where he couldn't go outside.†   (source)
  • Even assuming each contagious agent infected only a hundred per day, the numbers grew exponentially.†   (source)
  • It's highly contagious, more so than any virus we've seen.†   (source)
  • Maybe they are careful like that with all really contagious diseases, do you think?†   (source)
  • It was not quite contagious enough to start a full-scale disaster.†   (source)
  • I didn't send him to meet you!" my niang said, laughing her contagious laugh.†   (source)
  • Quickly a contagious ward was created by stringing a curtain across a doorway.†   (source)
  • If AIDS is not as contagious as they say, then how come all that's necessary?†   (source)
  • And yet one cannot take a hackney, for the last person inside may have breathed contagion.†   (source)
  • Let's deal with the issue of contagion first.†   (source)
  • The Ebola agent seemed not to be contagious in face-to-face contacts.†   (source)
  • Those of us who were left feared each other and the hidden contagion we each might carry.†   (source)
  • It's not contagious or life-threatening or …. go away, thoughts.†   (source)
  • Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true.†   (source)
  • Should we try to make smoking less contagious, to stop the Salesmen who spread the smoking virus?†   (source)
  • Simian hemorrhagic fever is highly contagious in monkeys.†   (source)
  • Contagiousness is in larger part a function of the messenger.†   (source)
  • I suspect that for some of you it did, which means that yawns can also be emotionally contagious.†   (source)
  • We have, in our minds, a very specific, biological notion of what contagiousness means.†   (source)
  • Lambesis was picking on various, very contagious, trends while they were still in their infancy.†   (source)
  • The message here — new seeds — was highly contagious and powerfully sticky.†   (source)
  • Think, for a moment, about the concept of contagiousness.†   (source)
  • But in many cases the contagious spread of a new idea is actually quite tricky.†   (source)
  • First of all, they are clear examples of contagious behavior.†   (source)
  • From his pipes there poured the bitter-dark sour-sweet melody contagious.†   (source)
  • …a few steps and Harry read the floor guide: ARTEFACT ACCIDENTS… Ground floor Cauldron explosion, wand backfiring, broom crashes, etc. CREATURE-INDUCED INJURIES… First floor Bites, stings, burns, embedded spines, etc. MAGICAL BUGS… Second floor Contagious maladies, e.g. dragon pox, vanishing sickness, scrojungulus, etc. POTION AND PLANT POISONING… Third floor Rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable 2, etc. SPELL DAMAGE… Fourth floor Unliftable jinxes, hexes, incorrectly applied charms,…†   (source)
  • This is the advertising now most important to be developed; that of high-strung, contagious enthusiasm, growing from actual excellence: the question being not whether people shall be satisfied, but how much they shall be carried away with admiration, and infect others by their unexpected enjoyment of what they found.†   (source)
  • During the second, a Level Two drill meant for minor crises--such as a temporary quarantine while citizens were tested for contagion during a flu outbreak--we were supposed to return to our living quarters.†   (source)
  • Old World Umber is contagious.†   (source)
  • The babbling would spread throughout the van like a contagious disease, and soon everyone would be doing it.†   (source)
  • He saw no reason why Fermina Daza should not be a widow like them, prepared by life to accept him just as he was, without fantasies of guilt because of her dead husband, resolved to discover with him the other happiness of being happy twice, with one love for everyday use which would become, more and more, a miracle of being alive, and the other love that belonged to her alone, the love immunized by death against all contagion.†   (source)
  • "But I'm not contagious now!†   (source)
  • The Hogwarts house-elves had now started edging away from Dobby, as though he were carrying something contagious.†   (source)
  • Stomach viruses were rare on Phoenix, and anyone who seemed vaguely contagious was required to spend the duration of their illness in quarantine.†   (source)
  • I had contracted dragon pox shortly before arriving at school, and while I was no longer contagious, my pock-marked visage and greenish hue did not encourage many to approach me.†   (source)
  • You're a man of such importance I hope by coming here you aren't exposing yourself to some dreadful contagion."†   (source)
  • That is, his was the only case that involved the lungs and was contagious, the only epidemiologically significant case, the only kind of case that dots addresses.†   (source)
  • By learning how to recognize yourself and others as Viral Contagion Threats (VCTs) you will take the first step in the battle against the Flare.†   (source)
  • It was contagious somehow.†   (source)
  • So …. if I had contracted the plague naturally, say … a couple days ago, how long before I was no longer contagious?†   (source)
  • It's not contagious, you know.†   (source)
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