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Words nearby pandemic

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Words related to pandemic

catholic, cosmopolitan, empyrean, generic, comprehensive, general, regular, common, broad, sweeping, total, whole, accepted, all, all-inclusive, astronomical, celestial, cosmic, customary, diffuse

Example sentences from the Web for pandemic

• Take Me Fishing has current info on state regulations, which are constantly evolving under pandemic guidelines.

  Three Family-Friendly Adventures to Try This Fall|Outside Editors|September 17, 2020|Outside Online

• They ranked the pandemic ninth in importance out of 15 potential threats.

  Poll: Sharp partisan differences now exist on foreign policy, views of American exceptionalism|Dan Balz, Scott Clement|September 17, 2020|Washington Post

• Golf was one of the first sports to return both professionally and recreationally during the coronavirus pandemic.

  ‘One endless loop’: How Golf is using its new retail marketplace as a first-party data play|Kayleigh Barber|September 16, 2020|Digiday

• The IBM Research Center represents the company’s earliest site to reopen amid the pandemic’s shutdowns.

  IBM plans a huge leap in superfast quantum computing by 2023|rhhackettfortune|September 15, 2020|Fortune

• It’s a Wednesday evening in March, and the coronavirus pandemic is ravaging Italy.

  Vittorio Brumotti Serves Vigilante Justice on a Bike|Tom Vanderbilt|September 15, 2020|Outside Online

• The Ebola pandemic in West Africa is having a disastrous effect on tourism on the whole continent.

  Ebola Could Deal a Death Blow to Africa’s Wildlife|Brandon Presser|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• If there is a pandemic to be actually worried about, it’s the pandemic of fear as we approach the midterm elections.

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• “There are sexy issues tied to this pandemic,” she says unapologetically.

  “Dirty 30”: Talking AIDS To The Basketball Wives Set|Hugh Ryan|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• Once you start to look at this pandemic there’s no way you would ever turn your back.

  “Dirty 30”: Talking AIDS To The Basketball Wives Set|Hugh Ryan|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• In 2009 nearly all influenza cases were caused by the pandemic H1N1 virus, driving the previously dominant H3N2 underground.

  Flu Fears: The Race Between Pandemic Viruses and a Universal Vaccine|John M. Barry|January 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST

• Uranian Aphrodite was distinguished from her Pandemic sister by chastened lust-repelling loveliness.

  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece|John Addington Symonds

• Pandemic, pan-dem′ik, adj. incident to a whole people, epidemic.

  Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various

• The disease is nearly always epidemic, though at intervals it appears to be pandemic and in certain districts almost endemic.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2|Various

• The evidence that the great epidemics of influenza are due to some general and pandemic influence is conclusive.

  A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I|Various

British Dictionary definitions for pandemic

pandemic

/ (pænˈdɛmɪk) /

adjective

(of a disease) affecting persons over a wide geographical area; extensively epidemic

noun

a pandemic disease

Word Origin for pandemic

C17: from Late Latin pandēmus, from Greek pandēmos general, from pan- + demos the people

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Medical definitions for pandemic

pandemic

[ păn-dĕm′ĭk ]

adj.

Epidemic over a wide geographic area.

n.

A pandemic disease.

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Scientific definitions for pandemic

pandemic

[ păn-dĕm′ĭk ]

An epidemic that spreads over a very wide area, such as an entire country or continent.

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Cultural definitions for pandemic

pandemic

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.