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are infecting

  • present progressive of infect.

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Mold also uses these same lipid bubbles to deliver small, damaging RNAs into the plants they are infecting to suppress host immunity, an ability developed as part of a co-evolutionary arms race.

From Science Daily Dec. 21, 2023

“You are infecting everyone else!” the doctor reportedly screamed.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2020

And recent studies have suggested that antibodies raised by these mutant egg-grown H3N2 vaccine viruses are unable to kill viruses that are infecting humans.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2017

These diseases are infecting people around the globe at an alarming rate.

From Seattle Times Sep. 9, 2014

It is that we are infecting the Old World with what seems to be thought the entirely new disease of Democracy.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William