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pandemic

[pan-dem-ik] / pænˈdɛm ɪk /


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During the pandemic, it traded as if mRNA would transform medicine overnight, with its market capitalization peaking near $200 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

It is home to an immigration detention facility, and was used by the Australian government as a quarantine site during the Covid-19 pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

The 2020 festival was called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

In 2023, as soon as the China-Hong Kong border reopened after the pandemic she made her way to Hong Kong to find it.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Word of the spirit circles spread almost as fast as the cholera pandemic that swept the country.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Narrated through 18 voices, the book is set in a dystopian future America reeling from a series of pandemics.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The group is also fighting Becker’s bill, which would add war to the list of emergencies — such as natural disasters and pandemics — that can trigger California’s price-gouging laws.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Market corrections, recessions, depressions, pandemics and human folly, along with investing in individual stocks despite the standard advice to diversify your holdings, can all take a toll on retirement savings.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

The WHO chief and Brazil's president on Monday urged the G7 to summon the "courage" to finish the international treaty on handling future pandemics.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

They seem to have an occasional accident, but they have not yet, so far as I know, produced global pandemics.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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