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as in eruption
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as in infectious
exciting a similar feeling or reaction in others
the little girl's giggles were epidemic, and soon the entire gathering was laughing
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Recent Examples of epidemic
Melody Schreiber, NPR, 6 June 2025
In the 80s, amid the growing AIDS epidemic, President Ronald Reagan told reporters that gay men were a threat to the general population.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Geneive Abdo, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2020
One way to disrupt the epidemic potential is to eliminate the virus in sewage.
—Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
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Noun
The epidemic was particularly brutal because HIV often kills young people in the prime of their lives, Dybul says.
—Melody Schreiber, NPR, 6 June 2025
In the 80s, amid the growing AIDS epidemic, President Ronald Reagan told reporters that gay men were a threat to the general population.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Adjective
Many of the province’s early cases of COVID-19 were linked to pilgrims who had been in Iran, the world’s leading Shiite power and an early epidemic hot spot, as well as a regional antagonist to Riyadh.
—Geneive Abdo, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2020
One way to disrupt the epidemic potential is to eliminate the virus in sewage.
—Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epidemic
Noun
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Five years after the pandemic, Andrew Cuomo is still gaslighting New Yorkers about how many people died in nursing homes.—
Bill Hammond,
New York Daily News,
22 June 2025
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This would be their fifth in-person cohort of the class (their first program was taught online amid the pandemic).—
David Mack,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025
Noun
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Intense enough to ionize Earth's upper atmosphere, the eruption caused a shortwave radio blackout centered over the Pacific Ocean.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
20 June 2025
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The eruption is flowing into a remote area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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State health officials estimated less than 1% of cases — fewer than 10 — are actively infectious.—
DEVI SHASTRI,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
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Vega brought an infectious attitude to the team that finished the year 24-1 and wound up No. 1 in the nation in the MaxPreps rankings.—
Gary Curreri,
Sun Sentinel,
20 June 2025
Noun
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This is epic fantasy set in a big world with a mysterious past (as well as a ravenous fungal ghost plague!).—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
13 June 2025
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But according to Good Energy, the book Means published last year with a top MAHA adviser—her brother, Calley—mitochondrial dysfunction is a veritable plague upon the United States, responsible for both serious illness and everyday malaise.—
Hannah Seo,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2025
Noun
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Photo taken after an explosion in downtown Tehran amid Israel's two-day campaign of strikes against Iran on June 15.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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The explosion of betting options signals the next stage of growth for U.S. sports betting, shifting from wagers placed before a game to betting during a game.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
15 June 2025
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While pestilence crept over the walls of cities and the countryside fell into desolation—many foreign conquerors of Europe knew how to fight and plunder but not to plow or sow—the monks preserved words.—
Bernd Roeck
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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In recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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Friday’s upswing was the biggest intraday move for the crude futures contract since 2022.—
Zev Fima,Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
18 June 2025
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No White House since then has dared to go around a state chief to activate domestic troops, and the seeming trigger for a careening upswing is an 1807 law that allows the military to be used to quash a domestic uprising.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
9 June 2025
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Inflation in Japan highest in two years Rice prices in Japan more than doubled in May, spiking 101.7% year over year and marking their largest increase in over half a century.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
20 June 2025
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And the data show sharp increases across almost all demographics.—
Kevin Sabet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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“Epidemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epidemic. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.
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