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contagion
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  • With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion.  (source)
    contagion = the spread
  • 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
  • "Viral Contagion Threat," Brenda answered before Thomas could ask her.†  (source)
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  • Bep is still in isolation, but any day now her sister will no longer be contagious.†  (source)
  • Contagion, why, this was worse than snakes, since you couldn't see it coming!†  (source)
  • Think, for a moment, about the concept of contagiousness.†  (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.
  • 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)
  • It's contagious and echoes all around us.†  (source)
  • "I find this contagion of optimism positively flabbergasting," said Enoch.†  (source)
  • We have, in our minds, a very specific, biological notion of what contagiousness means.†  (source)
  • There was still another reason for this: Frau Kommandant was deathly afraid of the camp's contagions.†  (source)
  • If only patience were contagious like mumps.†  (source)
  • Although, against the sterile bandage, the hem of his undershorts looks filthy and teeming with contagion.†  (source)
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