Noun : an epidemic of riots. From Dictionary.com.
Most of these diseases can spread epidemically in concentrated populations. From Wordnik.com. [1. Water in camps of Displaced people] Reference
Beriberi is a disease prevalent, epidemically, in tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern. From Wordnik.com. [Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Spread by the bites of various ticks and therefore tends to present sporadically rather than epidemically. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
It prevails epidemically, and after an active epidemic it may remain in the vicinity for a number of years. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
The diseases which prevail epidemically with them, are pleurisies, and those which are called acute diseases. From Wordnik.com. [On Airs, Waters, And Places] Reference
How are they doing what they are doing, especially when the overall health of our country has become epidemically bad?. From Wordnik.com. [The Baietto Brothers: Tips for Staying Younger, Longer] Reference
But suddenly — and this is the great fear — the disease can flare epidemically — and tens of thousands cry, 'Kill the Jew' — while the other millions stand passively by. From Wordnik.com. [Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood] Reference
There's a word I find to be epidemically misused in our culture. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily O'Collegian RSS] Reference
Of all the reasons one might offer for the epidemically gripping nature of AMC's. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Curiously the same desire is epidemically prevalent among your friends, not least here. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
The need in both countries is considerably greater than that. obesity is increasing epidemically in the western world. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
Besides these, there are the usual run of mining companies, which spring up epidemically and mostly have their headquarters in Victoria. From Wordnik.com. [Town Life in Australia] Reference
In this country it has been over and over again remarked, that, so far back as 1669, the spasmodic cholera prevailed epidemically under the observation of Dr. Sydenham, who records it. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community.] Reference
I guess how confident are you that these new relationships that you cited in your prepared remarks with the broker dealers that epidemically do increase the selling exposure in the market. From Wordnik.com. [US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha] Reference
The metaphor of germs would be more appropriate if applied to the ideas of the party-programmes, for these ideas are introduced by a few wise or foolish men and disseminated epidemically throughout their respective parties. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
Toward the end of the century it spread to the South of France, and since that time has appeared epidemically, 195 distinct outbreaks having been observed in the course of one hundred and sixty-nine years, from 1618 to 1787. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
With Time Capsules epidemically failing after an average of 18 months and 22 days, it might be time to start thinking about an alternative use for your pristinely albino, Apple-branded router once its body squirts out its last breath of 802. 11-n ectoplasm. From Wordnik.com. [Cult of Mac] Reference
Once I was not undressed for twenty-one days and nights; superintending and giving instructions on six or eight confinement cases in every twenty-four hours; lecturing three hours every afternoon to the class of midwives; giving clinical lectures to them twice a week, for an hour in the morning; superintending the care of some twenty infants, who were epidemically attacked with purulent ophthalmia; and having, besides, the general supervision of the whole department. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia] Reference
· the implementation and the working out of programmes for the control of endemo-epidemically transmissible diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
We are fat, sloppy and epidemically lazy. From Wordnik.com. [hey fat face.. .] Reference
1820 and 1821), when the disease prevailed epidemically among the troops of that station, while I was in medical charge of the garrison, but while no cases had occurred in the fort within which the hospital was situated, the patients were brought at once from their quarters to the hospital, which, on each occasion, was crowded with sick labouring under other disorders. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community.] Reference
Yes, he after an instant believed his ears; coarse common Newton Winch, whom he had called on because he could, as a gentleman, after all afford to, coarse common Newton Winch, who had had troubles and been epidemically poisoned, lamentably sick, who bore in his face and in the very tension, quite exactly the "charm," of his manner, the traces of his late ordeal, and, for that matter, of scarce completed gallant emergence -- this astonishing ex-comrade was simply writing himself at a stroke (into our friend's excited imagination at all events) the most distinguished of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Finer Grain] Reference
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