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• "This creates what is often termed as 'social contagion.'"2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR. From the entry social contagion
• These possibly supersocial people also report greater emotional contagion, and they are more likely to join in laughter.2023, Chris Frith, Uta Frith, What Makes Us Social?, page 60. From the entry supersocial
• The current contagion occurred in three farms in Cheongju in North Chungcheong province, south of the capital Seoul, the ministry said.2023 May 11, Seoyun Kang, Ed Davies, “South Korea to cull cattle after outbreak of foot and mouth disease”, in Christian Schmollinger…. From the entry North Chungcheong
• I remember how I used to be before the contagion.2016 August 23, Torrey Peters, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, pages 54–55. From the entry t4t
• Still, she could not prevent Mrs Croxon’s flusteriness from spreading like a contagion, so that even Peg’s systems faltered.2015, Martine Bailey, “Delafosse Hall: October 1792”, in The Penny Heart, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 207. From the entry flusteriness
• SARS set off a panic about global spread and contagion.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 182. From the entry SARS
• And the psychiatrist himself did not feel totally devoid of some symptoms of molysmophobia, the obsessive fear of contagion.1995, Charles R. Howell, Ancestral House, page 488. From the entry molysmophobia
• "This creates what is often termed as 'social contagion.'"Says Nabi: Your kindness influences a friend, who influences their friend, who influences their friend.2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR. From the entry social contagion
• The Zoigl, too, is a contagion.2016, Jeff Rice, Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry Zoigl
• But such is the frailty of human reason and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld.1957, Emil Aarestrup, Christian Frederik Petersen, Morten Borup, Emil Aarestrups breve til Christian Petersen, Gyldendal, page 220. From the entry ænigma
• By reason of their closeness to the Stages they have caught the contagion of foul-mouthedness, and accusations of bribery, corruption, and evil-living are many.1920, Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Travel (1892-1913). From the entry foulmouthedness
• There was a saintly minorite, one Fra Cristofero, who came to tend the plague-ridden, and who himself was miraculously preserved from the contagion.1915, Rafael Sabatini, “The Perugian”, in The Banner of the Bull: Three Episodes in the Career of Cesare Borgia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin…. From the entry plague-ridden
• By its help parents and proparents were able to bring the youths into the very presence of the loathed deceit without submitting them to the chance of contagion.2025, Ron Miller, Alan Orloff, Tom Milani, Black Cat Weekly #204, page 961. From the entry telacoustic
• For contemporaries, perhaps the most shocking thing about the Black Death was that fear of contagion led people to abandon the sick, leaving them to die alone, like animals.1999, Peter C. Jupp, Clare Gittings, Death in England: An Illustrated History, page 98. From the entry companioned
• A petition drive to close all homosexual establishments in response to an assumed general AIDS contagion was begun in late October, according to The Weekly News of Miami.1983 December 24, “Effort To Close Gay Businesses Underway”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 2. From the entry homosexual
• Photophobia was the latest affliction of Afghan officialdom—by contagion, probably, from Persia which tries to nip in the bud pictures that show her not yet entirely modern.1947, Ella K. Maillart, The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939, University of Chicago Press, published 2013, →ISBN…. From the entry photophobia
• Even Catherine’s own mother scandalized her daughter by succumbing to the contagion of the place, and “throwing her cap over the windmill,” as the French have it.1914, E. A. Brayley Hodgetts, The Life of Catherine the Great of Russia. From the entry throw one's cap over the windmill
• In cachectic subjects, or in a strumous child the victim is never safe when the diathesis is reinforced by any contagion which further undermines a constitution built on sand.1902, Robert M. Tooker, “The Homœopathic Treatment of Whooping Cough”, in The North American Journal of Homeopathy, volume 50, page 48. From the entry tussis
• The so-called contagion of the public debt crisis among the PIIGGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Great Britain and Spain) worries Washington and Tokyo, the deepest in debt non-European governments.2010, P Deaconu, “The Impact Of The Financial Crisis On The Currency And The Monetary System”, in Annals of Spiru Haret University. From the entry PIIGGS

Meaning of contagion

1. noun A disease spread by contact.
2. noun The spread or transmission of such a disease.
3. noun The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household.

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Questions about contagion in a sentence

How do you use contagion in a sentence?

Contagion is used as a noun. For example: “And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.”

What is a short sentence with contagion?

“The Zoigl, too, is a contagion.”

What does contagion mean?

Contagion means a disease spread by contact.