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Definition
a submicroscopic organism that causes disease (by using the cellular reproductive machinery of the organism it invades)
- Frankly, I think all we're passing along is some viral crud.Part 1 (80% in)
- He fussed over her as if she had mono or cancer, not just a virus, which is what she'd told him when he called her on his cell from school that morning.Part 1 (99% in)
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- A murmur spread virally through the courtroom, something that always happened in the wake of hearing that not-guilty plea, and that always seemed ridiculous to Alex-what was the defendant supposed to do?Part 1 (79% in)
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