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contagion

[kuhn-tay-juhn] / kənˈteɪ dʒən /


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Any depegging of stablecoins or deterioration of market depth would show that the contagion is spreading, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Carvão said the web of overlapping investments increases the risk of contagion if a weaker company such as CoreWeave runs into trouble.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

He said Boutcher believed this would have carried an "unacceptable risk" of serious and prolonged disorder, with "a wider contagion effect".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The big difference now is that the European Central Bank acknowledges this as a flaw, and doesn’t view contagion as inevitably reflecting irresponsible budgeting, or other forms of economic mismanagement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Even the idea of contagion itself was novel.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Whether caused by geopolitical conflict, health contagions or extreme weather, supply-chain crises will likely be a permanent fixture of the economy until global supply chains build in greater resilience.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

Long ties, which are created through randomly rewired edges that make them 'longer,' accelerate the spread of social contagions.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024

The idea is that NTT's e-nose can be used not just to sniff out any contagions, but also how fresh - or not - a foodstuff is.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023

"Nevertheless, observations and analysis show that, despite the high level of contagions, the level of hospitalizations is low enough and this does not have an impact on the decrease of the demand," he said.

From Reuters ● Jan. 4, 2022

For nigh on two weeks, our clothes have seen neither water nor soap, and they are now considerably enstyed by the muck of the deck and the contagions of the air.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson


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