Examples of contagion in a Sentence

a disease that spreads by contagion People have been warned to keep out of the area to avoid contagion.

Recent Examples on the Web So, Amazon desperately wants to avoid that type of contagion. — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022 Even though the coronavirus contagion in San Antonio is under control for now, the lab is working to run samples more frequently with the looming threat of omicron. — Marina Starleaf Riker, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Dec. 2021 In some cases, the plagues that haunt this new crop of books are little more than scenery, a kind of wry nod to the low-grade fear many of us have that maybe this is just what the future will look like: one vicious contagion after another. — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022 Others have begun to question whether there will be contagion effects into other metals markets and if the LME has acted fairly when canceling trades. — Will Daniel, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2022 Analysts at Capital Economics warned that if a financial institution is particularly exposed to Russian debt, that could spark broader contagion. — Allison Morrow, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022 Poczatek started to think of this help as emotional PPE, the protective gear ubiquitous in the fight against COVID contagion. — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2022 This new production, directed by Jerry Zaks, works hard to convince us that we, too, have been transported back to our Before Times, when nobody feared contagion, and crowds could flock to Broadway expecting to be pleased. — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022 Finally, note that emotional contagion isn’t always a good thing. — David Benjamin And David Komlos, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021 See More

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History and Etymology for contagion

Middle English contagioun, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French contagiun, borrowed from Latin contāgiōn, contāgiō "contact, contact resulting in disease, infection, pollution," from contag-, variant stem of contingere "to be in contact with, arrive at, affect, fall to one's lot" + -iōn-, -iō, suffix of action nouns formed from compound verbs — more at contingent entry 1

Note: The vowel length in contāgiō is unexpected and difficult to explain; a similarly lengthened vowel is found in other deverbal derivatives with -ag- as a second member (compāgēs "bond, joint," from pangere, ambāgēs "circuitous path," from agere; see agent, pact).

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