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pandemic

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pandemic /panˈdɛmɪk/

▶adjective (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or large part of the world. ▶noun an outbreak of such a disease.

– origin C17: from Gk pandēmos (from pan ‘all’ + dēmos ‘people’) + -ic.

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a global pandemic over the outbreak
Epidemic and pandemic
of the pandemic
pandemic/epidemic

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