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communicability

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Without that communicability, the discovery would have a strange status.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

The appeal of alpha theory lies also in its clarity and neatness as an idea, its easy communicability and apparently easy transferability from canine-only to canine-human ensembles.

From Slate Sep. 24, 2021

The second wave, which exploded across the country in April and May, exposed both the Delta variant’s increased communicability and India’s inability to cope.

From New York Times Aug. 17, 2021

As a concerned friend, Ben told me that when scientists are trying to test the communicability of a virus, they often have the subjects of the experiment play cards.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2020

P.S.—Throughout the foregoing letter, I have used the words contagion and infection as precisely synonymous terms, meaning communicability of disease from one person to another.

From 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. by Gillkrest, J. (James)