How to Use outbreak in a Sentence
outbreak
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Here's what to know about the outbreak.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 2 June 2026
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Here’s what to know about the outbreak.
—Kaan Ozcan, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
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Here's what to know about the outbreak.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
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Eleven cases have been linked to the outbreak so far.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
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Of those outbreaks, 15 were caused by norovirus.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
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Texas has not been immune to the outbreak.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026
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Here are some lessons learned from the Texas measles outbreak.
—Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 25 Aug. 2025
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Last year there were 16 outbreaks.
—Mustafa Fattah, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
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The recent outbreak of war has now made that much worse.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026
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What else should people know about the outbreak?
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
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Add to this the lack of lessons learned from prior outbreaks.
—Ivan Buendia Gayton, STAT, 7 July 2026
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What’s the real cost of a measles outbreak?
—Erika Edwards, NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
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But with this current outbreak, that doesn't seem to be the case.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2022
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The public has seen measles outbreaks.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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How did the hantavirus outbreak start?
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 7 May 2026
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So far this virus has been contained to small outbreaks in Asia.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 31 Jan. 2026
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Act too late, and the outbreak can spiral out of control.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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And, as far as the type of outbreak that canceled the weekend shows?
—oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2022
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But that could change depending on the course of this outbreak.
—Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 23 July 2022
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This outbreak's case count is the largest since 2000.
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
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The name for the current outbreak is, at the very least, inapt.
—Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
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But at the present time, too little is known about the current outbreak.
—Dave Wessner, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Four people died as a result of that outbreak.
—Vytas Reid, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
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Not even four measles outbreaks since 2011 made a dent in the trend.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
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What’s causing the measles outbreaks?
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2026
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Why are listeria outbreaks so hard to track?
—Kaan Ozcan, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
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No deaths have been reported in this outbreak.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
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This outbreak is the former, not the latter.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 May 2026
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There's been big outbreaks in Utah and Arizona as well.
—CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
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Why are Raw Farm cheeses being linked to this outbreak?
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
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