Definition of "epidemics" []

• Plural form of epidemic. (noun)

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• "I talk about both those behaviors as what I call epidemics of self-destruction among teenagers."
• "Smith gestures toward a definition of epidemics that focuses on its transmissibility, via communication or transportation lines, though in some cases, the term comes awfully close to existing in the eye of the beholder."
• "Signs of trouble loom on the horizon, among them twin epidemics of diabetes and obesity in young people, says Daniel Levy of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham study, a 50-year-old examination of heart disease in a Massachusetts community."