contagion - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • aggression: WHEELER, L. & SMITH, S. ( 1967 ) Censure of the model in the contagion of aggression.
  • heresy: The Inquisition was firm about protecting the young and ignorant from the contagion of heresy.

Converse of object

  • prevent: It is imperative that hydration is maintained in affected animals and that precautions are taken to prevent contagion of adjacent stock.
  • spread: The barons are now spreading the contagion to the developing world.
  • avoid: To avoid contagion, it is legitimate for the EU to submit national budgets to a binding discipline.
  • escape: Nor could the heroism and the folly be kept apart, for there were few who could quite escape the contagion of the times.
  • limit: And international response to financial crises is an imperative to limit the contagion of panic and financial losses.

Adjective modifier

  • financial: The high degree of economic interdependence in the region spread the financial contagion from one country to another.
  • social: It is not offered as a general theory of cultural evolution, nor a general theory of social contagion.
  • emotional: However, little research has been done on relatives of individuals with emotional disorders, despite developments in the area of emotional contagion.
  • moral: Instead, I let others suffer the full moral contagion, and make sure the only dirt on my hands is the physical sort.
  • behavioral: WHEELER, L. ( 1966 ) Toward a theory of behavioral contagion.
  • deadly: And that would not be so bad, only for the deadly contagion.

Modifies a noun

  • problem: Accordingly, we suggest that the results can be applied to various SWN models used to simulate contagion problems.
  • effect: These rippling or contagion effects have provoked increasing interest since the 1997 Asian financial crises.
  • spread: However, as the Asian contagion spread and economic contraction followed, oil prices fell to $ 9 per barrel in 1998.
  • theory: Free cell formation, heterogenesis, and the chemical contagion theory all seemed to have disappeared.
  • probability: The factors are then combined by multiplication, and the result raised to the power of 1/3 to give the final contagion probability.
  • research: Social contagion research has produced an eclectic, largely confused and jumbled body of evidence that lacks any comprehensive organizing principle or conceptual framework.

Noun used with modifier

  • thought: False beliefs can spread as thought contagions, but so too can true beliefs.

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