pandemic

[ US /pænˈdɛmɪk/ ]
[ UK /pændˈɛmɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world
ADJECTIVE
  1. existing everywhere
    pandemic fear of nuclear war
  2. epidemic over a wide geographical area
    a pandemic outbreak of malaria
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How To Use pandemic In A Sentence

  • In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like malaria and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained.
  • To develop the tools of social transformation she convened an activist community of pastors, preachers, biblical exegetes, theologians and theology students, laymen and laywomen to develop tools to guide the Christian churches in an engagement with the pandemic. Karen Torjesen: Feminist Theology In The 21st Century
  • It is possible that one or both of these pandemics were due to smallpox, or even measles.
  • The effectiveness of antivirals in the treatment of pandemic influenza is unclear.
  • One final, explosive question remains: Why did a virus that was once so rare suddenly burst into a global pandemic?
  • An influenza pandemic could infect half the population and kill between 50,000 and 750,000 people. Times, Sunday Times
  • I know people are concerned about the possibility of a ‘bird flu pandemic’.
  • Pandemic influenza remains a non-eradicable zoonosis, and SARS has made an unwelcome zoonotic incursion.
  • Is the Canadian plan to deal with the bird flu pandemic similar to that outlined by the president today?
  • The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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