epidemic
Example Sentences
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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.
He said Yemenis would be "very vulnerable to epidemics" this year, warning: "A humanitarian crisis in Yemen is a risk to the Arabian Peninsula. Cholera, measles and polio cross borders."
From Barron's
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