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Once injected into the body, the vaccine releases the mRNA to program the cell to produce spike proteins like those on the surface of SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus.
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Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
But where does the virus spread most easily?
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 11 Feb. 2026
The results, published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, came from the researchers using the body’s immune response to cytomegalovirus, or CMV, a common but typically harmless virus.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
At the 2018 Games in South Korea, for instance, officials scrambled to contain the same virus.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
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Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
But where does the virus spread most easily?
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 11 Feb. 2026
The results, published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, came from the researchers using the body’s immune response to cytomegalovirus, or CMV, a common but typically harmless virus.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
At the 2018 Games in South Korea, for instance, officials scrambled to contain the same virus.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virus
Noun
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After whooping cough vaccinations declined in Dallas County over the last year, the preventable disease spiked to the highest numbers of infections officials have seen in over a decade, Huang said.—
Lauren Mascarenhas,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
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Harm reduction can encompass a range of practices, including handing out free needles to slow the spread of disease, and many local leaders credit some of those efforts with recent drops in fatal overdoses.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Hadick remembers scrolling through Twitter as the contagion spread.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Still, while Burry warns of fallout, crypto’s footprint remains too small to trigger broad contagion.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
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