contacts

Example Sentences

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With no treatments or vaccines available, finding contacts and isolating them for 21 days was the only way to disrupt transmission, she said.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

She later discovered her iPhone 16 had automatically activated a crash detection alert during the incident, notifying the emergency services and her emergency contacts, and sharing her location.

From BBC • May 20, 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

A 2022 study gave participants contact-tracing devices to estimate how many close contacts they had each day while on a cruise—basically, evaluating the likelihood of an infectious disease’s spread.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

My understanding is that the reception committee who prepared the landing field is not connected to Julie’s prearranged contacts in Ormaie—more accurately they are all different members of the same circuit.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein