How to Use incidence in a Sentence

incidence

noun
  • And not all the data points to low incidence of school spread.
    Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • That like, so the incidence of the tariff.
    CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The incidence of autism in the US is on the rise.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The incidence of autism in the US is on the rise.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Breast cancer incidence is on the rise.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • But incidence of mild cases might not be the most useful thing to count.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Oct. 2020
  • This lack is partly due to the low incidence of mass and school shootings.
    Emily Greene-Colozzi, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Case and death data here are by date of report - not date of incidence.
    Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Both incidences have led to free press concerns in the States.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
  • There's less incidence of people losing their sense of taste and smell.
    NBC News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • There’s less incidence of people losing their sense of taste and smell.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 May 2022
  • Will there be an above-normal incidence of lightning and wind events that spark fires and drive their spread?
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Mass testing gives one a measure of incidence at a certain point in time.
    Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2020
  • This may have been the greatest incidence of the wrong thing being done for the right reason.
    New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The incidence of prostate cancer is higher there than anywhere else in the world.
    Nicholas Triolo, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2023
  • On the Russian side, the incidence of these diseases was low.
    Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Over the next decade, the incidence of thyroid cancer increased more than six-fold.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The incidence of quintuplets is rare, doctors said at the time.
    Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
  • None of it seems to have done anything to reduce the incidence of audit failures.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 25 June 2020
  • As for why higher step counts were found to be more protective against incidence of heart disease but not deaths?
    Korin Miller, Flow Space, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Does this plant have the same incidence of spreading ticks and Lyme disease?
    Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • Even more striking, the incidence of rectal cancer rose 3% per year in adults in this age group over the same time.
    Lydia A. Flier, Gabriela Rico, STAT, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The authors note the incidence difference was small between the two groups.
    Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 28 June 2023
  • The global incidence of Alzheimer’s is increasing at a rapid rate.
    Lauren Gravitz, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The agency is still seeing a steady increase in the incidence of the variant, the spokesperson said.
    al, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The agency is still seeing a steady increase in the incidence of the variant, the spokesperson said.
    Time, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Is the future incidence of T2d a threat to bankrupt our health care system?
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Its incidence, too, has steadily fallen, at a rate of 16% per decade, the researchers found.
    Gina Kolata New York Times, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
  • High nitrate content in beets may increase blood flow and lessen the incidence of ED.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2023
  • But since the 1990s, the incidence of more intense storms has increased.
    Saveur Editors, Saveur, 16 Apr. 2025

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