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viral

PRONUNCIATION:

(VY-ruhl)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Spreading rapidly and widely from person to person, often through social media rather than traditional avenues.
2. Relating to or caused by a virus.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin virus (poison). Earliest documented use: 1948.

USAGE:

“This past July, [Bishop Lamor] Whitehead made national headlines when videos of him being robbed during a church service, while wearing what was reported as several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry, went viral.”
Eric Lach; Friend of the Mayor; The New Yorker; Jan 30, 2023.

See more usage examples of viral in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

This book (All Quiet on the Western Front) is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. -Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (22 Jun 1898-1970)

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