virus
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈvaɪrəs/
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virus
- The idea of failure can act as a virus, spreading negativity among team members.
Alright, the question, are you a virus on this Earth?
- Alright, the question, are you a virus on this Earth?
- Code is a virus and AI is a virus.
- And the monist virus swarmed in and shut it down.
- Reality then gets distorted through the veil of these mental viruses that have taken over people's minds.
- Rather than disappearing, our biases have, like viruses, mutated.
- But but think about it this way, talking about this mind virus and how we need to change it.
- Watch left and right by the woke mind virus for the last place we want it.
Examples
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So, I like to think that the adolescent psyche is like a virus in this way; it's catching.
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The virus of capitalism is highly infectious.
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But so you have this mind virus that they plant in themselves.
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But but think about it this way, talking about this mind virus and how we need to change it.
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Positivity can spread like a virus, so you better be with the right people.
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A cultural virus, unlike a biological virus, is not tethered to any particular physical medium of transmission.
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As long as this mentality keeps spreading like a virus, the economy is headed down the tubes.
Blog text (21) -
If Karen Janney carries the virus of the future, then Bill Gray is the corpse of the old order.
Academic text (1997) -
In today's world, misinformation spreads like a virus, affecting people's beliefs and actions.
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A virus of greed has taken hold of the community, corrupting their values and priorities.
Synonyms
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3.0
A feeling that spreads quickly among people
Compounds
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4.3
A virus spread by mosquito bites that can make people and animals sick and sometimes cause brain infection
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3.4
A very dangerous virus that causes severe bleeding and high fever in people and animals
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3.4
A virus that attacks the body's defence system by destroying important immune cells and causes AIDS
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8.0
A very infectious virus that causes a serious fever illness in people and monkeys
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3.9
A germ that causes painful sores on the skin, often around the mouth or genitals
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4.2
A group of viruses that infect skin, mouth, or genitals and can cause warts and sometimes cancer
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A small germ that often causes hand, foot, and mouth disease in children
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A common virus that often causes a sickness that makes you very tired and is linked to some cancers
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A virus that lives in mice or rats and can make people sick
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A virus that causes a serious bleeding fever in people in Bolivia and spreads from rodents
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A virus that infects people and can cause a blood cancer of white blood cells called T cells
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A virus that causes a serious fever with bleeding in Argentina and spreads to people from rats and mice
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A virus that causes soft, jelly-like tumors in rabbits and sometimes humans
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A virus that infects the breathing tubes of young children and can cause serious chest infections like pneumonia
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A virus that makes onion plants grow poorly and their leaves turn yellow
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A virus that causes infections of the nose and throat, like the common cold, often in young children
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A virus that causes tumors in animals and scientists use in cancer research
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A germ that makes potato plants small and their leaves turn yellow
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A virus that infects tobacco and other plants, making leaves show light and dark patches
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A germ that stays inactive in the body for a long time before causing symptoms
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A milder form of smallpox that kills about one person in a hundred
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A tiny germ that causes brain inflammation in people and animals and spreads by infected mosquitoes
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An insulting phrase for strong social justice ideas seen as spreading online and changing people's views
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A plant virus spread by small jumping insects that causes growths on plants
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word virus originally comes from Latin virus meaning 'poison', so people use it for a harmful idea or feeling that spreads fast and damages a group, just like a real infection.