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    Use "contagion" in a sentence

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    contagion


    1. buried that same Christmas evening to prevent any contagion


    2. party coming down with the contagion, either before or


    3. He could truly sense the mood of despair, like a contagion; a virus transmitted by his network


    4. Unfortunately, this fatal delusion was not limited to Jews, and in its contagion spread to all races and caused untold harm not only to Jews, but to millions of non-Jews also


    5. The idea seemed to spread through the crowd like a contagion


    6. Turner to the conclusion that the animals had not died of a contagion


    7. The urge to yawn is contagious, it is said, and this contagion spread across the City with great speed as the Smug peered over the horizon


    8. It was for that reason that she decided to keep her away from the world, to protect her from all earthly temptation, not knowing that Remedios the Beauty, even from the time when she was in her moth-er’s womb, was safe from any contagion


    9. have a contagion that might spread to others, but simply because


    10. that emotional contagion onto those around us, especially the children

    11. Stories make an idea memorable and you share things you Here are Berger’s six elements of contagion: remember


    12. Therefore never come out of your room, if you are depressed and gloomy lest you should spread the contagion all around you


    13. Did he die of some sort of contagion, that Herist would burn him?”


    14. Thus we live in the age of ever increasing kinnection, where contagion is heightened, thus autonomy lost, and possible multiple 420


    15. When one's belief is the impoverishment and suffering of the majority of the Earth for one's personal indulgence, must people support your desire to persecute and exterminate others? The wealthy are not hated for their wealth, but pitied for their lack of humanity, feared for their pandemic contagion, and loved in spite of their indifference, excess, and idolatry of that which is killing all


    16. All er's love of the gun is a mental illness, a culturally celebrated neurotic obsession with tools of destruction and mayhem, and its contagion is spread by disseminators of the myndkey fear and a disempowered, delusional people's infantile need for a power pacifier


    17. She didn’t know when the contagion started


    18. Did he pick up a bacterial contagion, a virus, or touch some piece of fallen space junk? No one knows


    19. The others edged into the room, throwing caution to the wind in regard to the threat of contagion


    20. “Greece has made its choice and we now have to focus on the next step which is constructing a fireball which is large enough to prevent contagion within the euro zone” he replied when asked what the bailout meant

    21. WHAT?: The scribbled contagion,


    22. Th e principle of contagion causes inter-


    23. Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,


    24. With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,


    25. For her kindred, should the tidings ever reach them, and for the companions of her unspotted life, there remained nothing but the contagion of her dishonor; which would not fail to be distributed in strict accordance and proportion with the intimacy and sacredness of their previous relationship


    26. From the furthest east to the furthest west the cries spread as if by contagion, accompanied in some cases by the barking of a dog


    27. Such was the contagion of domiciliary fellowship with the Talbothays nymphs and swains


    28. After that, word spread through the building like a contagion


    29. The trick is to stay alert for the spread of the bullish contagion to less attractive and compelling related situations


    30. Becoming a contrarian trader • learn by doing • start small • a word to young readers • put yourself in the line of fire • my experience as a postcard trader • investment vehicles for contrarian trading • the advent of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) • investment goals • no need to be perfect • an example from the boom and bust 1990-2002 • tax issues • CTS #1: don’t speculate • why this is really a contrarian strategy • CTS #2: avoid big mistakes • inoculate yourself against crowd contagion • CTS #3: Contrarian Rebalancing • underweight when a bullish crowd develops • overweight when a bearish crowd develops • an example • best strategy to follow for the typical aspiring contrarian trader • suggestions for more aggressive contrarian trading strategies • an aggressive stock market strategy • look at bonds, commodities, stock market sectors, and individual stocks • it’s harder to track the crowd in such situations • the bandwagon strategy • the danger of trying the short side of a market • the odds favor the stock market bulls in the long run

    31. Evil Effects of Competition and Contagion


    32. In good part his docility and seeming apathy are results of certain traditional but unsound viewpoints which he seems to absorb by inheritance or by contagion


    33. Indeed, the market began to wobble in the summer of 1998, and while the major market indexes were all able to make a marginal higher high by mid-July 1998, this breakout to new highs was a bull trap, and the market quickly began to fail to the downside as the continued shockwaves from the Asian Contagion of 1997 that caused the big October 27, 2007, break in the market began to hit the headlines


    34. Less brain-to-brain contagion


    35. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and this infectious virtue is


    36. One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct kept him on the alert and uneasy


    37. Jean Valjean experienced an indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the clamorous city, dimly lighted at midday, and is, so to speak, incapable of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold their peace like ancients as they are


    38. Possible triggers include falls in other risky assets (although such contagion or spillover effects tend to be nearly instantaneous, limiting their usefulness); rising volatility and correlations; and tightening global liquidity conditions (especially in low-yielding “funding currency” countries)


    39. The teachers were fully occupied with packing up and making other necessary preparations for the departure of those girls who were fortunate enough to have friends and relations able and willing to remove them from the seat of contagion


    40. The name is derived from the fact that this concoction was popularly supposed to have rendered immune from contagion certain thieves who were pillaging the city of Toulouse during a severe plague (1720)

    41. And this is actually the case; for, however strange it may seem to say so, critics have always been people less susceptible than other men to the contagion of art


    42. It is the same in all arts: a wee bit lighter, a wee bit darker, a wee bit higher, lower, to the right or the left—in painting; a wee bit weaker or stronger in intonation, or a wee bit sooner or later—in dramatic art; a wee bit omitted, over-emphasized, or exaggerated—in poetry, and there is no contagion


    43. , which profess to be works of art—scarcely one in a hundred thousand proceeds from an emotion felt by its author, all the rest being but manufactured counterfeits of art, in which borrowing, imitating, effects, and interestingness replace the contagion of feeling


    44. Really, it is a pity to upset so good a fellow! His kindness exposes him more than anyone else to suffer contagion from your own malady


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    Synonyms for "contagion"

    contagion infection transmission contagious disease communication transmittal spread disease poison virus illness taint pollution

    "contagion" definitions

    any disease easily transmitted by contact


    an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted


    the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people