person-to-person

Example Sentences

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Days later, he learned that the severe disease typically carried by rodents may have transmitted person-to-person.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

The Andes virus is an outlier, in that there are documented instances of person-to-person transmission.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

"We have to take this very seriously. We have to shake hands eye-to-eye, person-to-person, and to discuss what is best for the US and Brazil."

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

Across much of the Global South, person-to-person, informal giving often exceeds formal donations.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Radio-Television Frangaise flew a crew of five from Paris to do a television show of the person-to-person type at my home in Mansfield.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin