infection

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Recent Examples of infection Worldwide, more than 10 million people are diagnosed with an active tuberculosis infection every year. NPR, 21 Oct. 2025 Over the course of 2½ hours, the Korean masterpiece goes a lot of different places following a bumbling cop worried about his family when a dangerous infection turns his neighbors into monsters. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025 The virus can also be associated with severe bacterial infection, with some individuals developing bacterial pneumonia or sepsis, Bryant said. Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025 To compare authoritarianism’s rise to an infection is perhaps obvious. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for infection
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Noun
  • When further trained on human and virus protein interactions, PLM-Interact again outperformed existing models in predicting how viruses interact with host proteins.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • All of the World Health Organization’s regions have committed to eliminate measles by 2030, defined by the absence of local virus transmission for any period longer than 12 months.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Chicken and turkey carried the highest-risk strains of bacteria, but pork and beef also carried the illness-causing germs.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In Toilet Base Regularly cleaning your toilet with water and vinegar will keep the smells away, but will also clean any of the germs that fester in and around your toilet and make the area stink, according to Knoll.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Infection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infection. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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