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"Widespread outbreak"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (PANDEMIC).
Definitions
A widespread outbreak of disease across countries or regions.
Word origin
From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη Πάνδημος (Aphrodítē Pándēmos, “Aphrodite Pandemos”), from πάνδημος (pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). See further at pandemic (etymology 1).
Used in a sentence
“The chaotic breakdown of public health as World War I dragged on is widely recognized as exacerbating the disease burden of the pandemic outbreak of influenza in 1918.”
“Diſeaſes are likewise endemic and pandemic. [...] The pandemic affect the People in general at one and the ſame Time, without Regard to Sex, Age, Condition, or Temperament; ſuch as peſtilential Diſeaſes.”
“The American pandemic of men's violence against women is one of the greatest tragedies of our time.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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