Contagion in example sentence

Consequently, the Fed left its interest rate unchanged throughout the summer of 2008, despite the collapse of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, AIG’s insolvency, and the emergence of global financial-market contagion.

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And we see this when lovers walk down the street, when a crowd in Egypt or Tunisia gets caught up in an emotional contagion, the deep interpenetration.

During the worst of the contagion, one thing kept us making those perilous daily journeys into the Ebola wards.

Some of them were really afraid of contagion, and they wouldn't even walk in front of our house.

In humans, of course, we can study that with yawn contagion.

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