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contagion

[kuhn-tey-juhn] / kənˈteɪ dʒən /


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Contagion has spread across the wider region: This week, Egypt’s pound crashed to a record low against the dollar on concerns that more expensive energy imports will strain fragile government finances.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Chukwudi Iwuji, who began his acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK, and Phillip James Brannon, best known for his Broadway roles and the movie Contagion, also star.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2025

He quoted a tweet in which the employee said that re-watching “Her” “felt a lot like rewatching Contagion in Feb 2020.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024

The 2011 bio-disaster thriller Contagion also solicited input from scientists—and it shows, says Tara Smith, an epidemiologist at Kent State University.

From National Geographic • Dec. 29, 2023

Contagion may well stalk these Fields, “his Eye-Sockets glaring Beams of frigid Light; his withered Weeds draped about the slats of his Emaciation”; but can we not bask in those Rays?

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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