epidemic
Example Sentences
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The romantic element of Sondheim’s score is best captured in the gorgeous singing of Chris Hunter’s Anthony Hope, whose crooning of “Johanna” provokes an epidemic of goosebumps throughout La Mirada Theatre.
From Los Angeles Times
The cases are using a similar script to past ones accusing pharmaceutical companies of perpetuating the opioid epidemic or tobacco companies of failing to warn about harm from cigarettes, cases that led to multibillion-dollar settlements.
There is an "epidemic of everyday crime", the Home Secretary says, such as shoplifting and phone theft.
From BBC
When asked if it was an epidemic the government was failing to cope with, he responded "in a nutshell, yes".
From BBC
She covered the beverage industry, then SARS, flu, Ebola and other epidemics and chronic diseases as a public health reporter in the Atlanta bureau.
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