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The phrase "a contagion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the spreading of a disease, an idea, or something similar from one person or place to another. For example, "The fear of the virus spread like a contagion throughout the city."
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"There is a contagion effect," he said.
Cynicism is a contagion in Pakistan.
"War is a contagion," he warned.
Monday happened to be a "contagion off" day.
It was like a contagion endlessly passed around.
This spread among the ladies like a contagion.
There was a contagion going on," she said.
The slothfulness spread among us girls like a contagion.
Is it any wonder traders are calling this a contagion?
And it carries a contagion: strangely, silence loves company.
But the civil-rights movement was more like a military campaign than like a contagion.
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