All 50 Uses of
epidemic
in
The Plague
- Oh, I suppose it's an epidemic they've been having.†
Part 1
- In a very few days the number of cases had risen by leaps and bounds, and it became evident to all observers of this strange malady that a real epidemic had set in.†
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- But, again, in the Canton epidemic there was no reliable way of counting up the rats.†
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- A few cases, he told himself, don't make an epidemic; they merely call for serious precautions.†
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- Richard, however, summing up the situation as he saw it, pointed out that if the epidemic did not cease spontaneously, it would be necessary to apply the rigorous prophylactic measures laid down in the Code.†
Part 1
- "Quite true," the Prefect assented, "but I shall need your professional declaration that the epidemic is one of plague."†
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- Could Dr. Richard take the responsibility of declaring that the epidemic would die out without the imposition of rigorous prophylactic measures?†
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- We are to take the responsibility of acting as though the epidemic were plague.†
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- If these measures were carefully studied and properly applied, they would obviate any risk of an epidemic.†
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- He then said in a hoarse, rather labored voice, casting uneasy glances over his shoulder: "Everybody's talking about an epidemic.†
Part 1
- Rieux included in it a clinical diagnosis and statistics of the epidemic.†
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- There was enough for immediate requirements, but not enough if the epidemic were to spread.†
Part 1
- Moreover, the epidemic seemed to be on the wane; on some days only ten or so deaths were notified.†
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- But that was only at the beginning of the epidemic, when the sentries found it natural to obey their feelings of humanity.†
Part 2
- At the height of the epidemic we saw only one case in which natural emotions overcame the fear of death in a particularly painful form.†
Part 2
- Mme. Castel had gone on a visit to a neighboring town some days before the epidemic started.†
Part 2
- For most people it was obvious that the separation must last until the end of the epidemic.†
Part 2
- …had drunk in advance the dregs of bitterness of those six black months, and painfully screwed up their courage to the sticking-place, straining all their remaining energy to endure valiantly the long ordeal of all those weeks and days-when they had done this, some friend they met, an article in a newspaper, a vague suspicion, or a flash of foresight would suggest that, after all, there was no reason why the epidemic shouldn't last more than six months; why not a year, or even more?†
Part 2
- Thus in the very heart of the epidemic they maintained a saving indifference, which one was tempted to take for composure.†
Part 2
- Hitherto neither the newspapers nor the Ransdoc Information Bureau had been given any official statistics relating to the epidemic.†
Part 2
- Cottard was a mine of stories of this kind, true or false, about the epidemic.†
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- Anyhow, let's hope the epidemic will soon be over.†
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- Once the epidemic was diagnosed, the patient had to be evacuated forthwith.†
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- The first month of the plague ended gloomily, with a violent recrudescence of the epidemic and a dramatic sermon preached by Father Paneloux, the Jesuit priest who had given an arm to old Michel when he was tottering home at the start of his illness.†
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- Nevertheless, many continued hoping that the epidemic would soon die out and they and their families be spared.†
Part 2
- In the mornings he would sit on the terrace of one of them and read a newspaper in the hope of finding some indication that the epidemic was on the wane.†
Part 2
- One thing, anyhow, was certain; discontent was on the increase and, fearing worse to come, the local officials debated lengthily on the measures to be taken if the populace, goaded to frenzy by the epidemic, got completely out of hand.†
Part 2
- Everyone realized with dismay that hot weather would favor the epidemic, and it was clear that summer was setting in.†
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- That, indeed, was one of the great changes brought by the epidemic.†
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- Needless to say, he outlines the progress of the plague and he, too, notes that a new phase of the epidemic was ushered in when the radio announced no longer weekly totals, but ninety-two, a hundred and seven, and a hundred and thirty deaths in a day.†
Part 2
- He also records such striking or moving incidents of the epidemic as came under his notice; that, for instance, of the woman in a lonely street who abruptly opened a shuttered window just above his head and gave two loud shrieks before closing the shutters again on the dark interior of a bedroom.†
Part 2
- But one by one, seeing that the epidemic showed no sign of abating, they moved out to stay with friends.†
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- He often asked Tarrou to say how long he thought the epidemic would last.†
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- This epidemic spelt the ruin of the tourist trade, in fact.†
Part 2
- …with scrupulous veracity, of the daily progress or recession of the disease; to supply them with the most authoritative opinions available as to its future course; to offer the hospitality of its columns to all, in whatever walk of life, who wish to join in combating the epidemic; to keep up the morale of the populace; to publish the latest orders issued by the authorities; and to centralize the efforts of all who desire to give active and wholehearted help in the present emergency.'†
Part 2
- If the epidemic spreads, morals too will broaden, and we may see again the saturnalia of Milan, men and women dancing round the graves.†
Part 2
- In the early days, when they thought this epidemic was much like other epidemics, religion held its ground.†
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- In the early days, when they thought this epidemic was much like other epidemics, religion held its ground.†
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- During the last twenty-four hours there had been two cases of a new form of the epidemic; the plague was becoming pneumonic.†
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- And the sole survivor was precisely the man whose job it was to wash the dead bodies, and who carried on throughout the epidemic.†
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- This was an hour of the day when the plague lay low, so to speak; the silence, the extinction of all color and movement, might have been due as much to the fierce sunlight as to the epidemic, and there was no telling if the air was heavy with menace or merely with dust and heat.†
Part 2
- Do you think, Dr. Rieux, that the epidemic will get worse?†
Part 2
- Is the epidemic getting out of hand?
Part 2 *epidemic = a widespread outbreak of a disease that is passed from one person (or other organism) to another
- At one of the two tables that occupied all the remaining space beyond the half-circle round the bar, a naval officer, with a girl on each side of him, was describing to a fat, red-faced man a typhus epidemic at Cairo.†
Part 2
- Indeed, had not the epidemic, as already mentioned, spread its ravages, all would have been for the best.†
Part 3
- Still, when all is said and done, the really amazing thing is that, so long as the epidemic lasted, there was never any lack of men for these duties.†
Part 3
- Such were the consequences of the epidemic at its culminating point.†
Part 3
- For the first time exiles from those they loved had no reluctance to talk freely about them, using the same words as everybody else, and regarding their deprivation from the same angle as that from which they viewed the latest statistics of the epidemic.†
Part 3
- But the most dangerous effect of the exhaustion steadily gaining on all engaged in the fight against the epidemic did not consist in their relative indifference to outside events and the feelings of others, but in the slackness and supineness that they allowed to invade their personal lives.†
Part 4
- In short, this epidemic has done him proud.†
Part 4
Definition:
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(epidemic) a widespread outbreak of a disease that is passed from one person (or other organism) to another
or more rarely: anything that spreads quickly -- especially something bad