contacts

Example Sentences

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Briand said it looked "promising" as something that might be able to prevent infected contacts from going on to develop disease from that infection.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Health workers in Goma must navigate dozens of rebel checkpoints as they try to trace contacts of suspected cases.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

They found that the average cruise ship passenger had a total of 20 unique close contacts a day, despite measures on the ship in question to try to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases aboard.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

"The fact that they have the infection means that we have the same preventative measure and will try and identify the contacts and protect them with antibiotics and vaccines."

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Most of these people never saw one another; we kept face.to-face contacts as few as possible.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom