How to Use prevalence in a Sentence

prevalence

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  • The prevalence of Achilles tears in the NFL has increased between three- and five-fold.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • But there’s nothing inevitable about the prevalence of gun deaths in the U.S.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The study assessed the prevalence of more than 200 keywords.
    — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The district is among the first in the Bay Area to do so, spurred by the growing prevalence of fentanyl.
    — Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • And the prevalence and the power of the most extreme wildfires are growing.
    — Paulina Smolinski, CBS News, 24 June 2024
  • Sticking with onions, a quick flip through the books on my desk revealed the prevalence of the paradox.
    — Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • The prevalence of garbage-in garbage-out (GIGO) can rear its ugly head.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The prevalence of scams and fraud in the crypto space highlights the importance of due diligence.
    — Tyler Shepherd, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Statistics on the prevalence of Irish twin births in the United States are lacking.
    — Pamela Prindle Fierro, Parents, 29 July 2024
  • The prevalence of smoking in Ohio has been linked to overall low life-expectancy and health rates.
    — Danae King, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
  • To understand the prevalence of Alzheimer's across the US, researchers conducted a first-of-its-kind study.
    — Cathy Cassata, Health, 27 July 2023
  • One study found that the prevalence of depression among retirees is about 29%.
    — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The prevalence of war, not just its persistence, could now be our future.
    — Paul Poast, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The prevalence of school shootings makes Aly worry about her own son’s future.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024
  • This, along with toyon’s prevalence in the hills around here, is what legend tells us led to the naming of Hollywood.
    — Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • The prevalence of the thinning amounted to 43% and 6% of the studied brain regions for girls and boys, respectively.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The prevalence of severe obesity surged from 4.7% to 9.2% for the same periods.
    — Michelle Chapman, Fortune Well, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The tool is used to help estimate current prevalence of variants, but does not predict future spread of the virus, the CDC said.
    — Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
  • But those who aren’t computer whizzes will be pleasantly surprised by the prevalence of soft skills in the top 10.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But their prevalence at the retail level doesn’t mean leather pants aren’t still a daring style statement.
    — Jake Woolf, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2023
  • What is not so common, police say, is the prevalence of young people driving crime.
    — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Mexico is the third worst country in the world in terms of the prevalence of criminal markets and the worst country in the world for extortion.
    — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In Los Angeles, the disorder has a 13.2% prevalence rate.
    — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
  • The Prince of Wales, 41, sat down with builders on a site in west London on Wednesday to talk about the prevalence of suicide in the construction industry.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Despite its prevalence, no one can say for sure how many children have the disorder.
    — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
  • Estimates for the prevalence of IGD range from 7 to 15 percent among adolescent boys and young men.
    — Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The prevalence of eating disorders has grown sharply in recent years.
    — Liz Szabo, NBC News, 31 July 2024
  • Despite the prevalence of weed shops, Oregon is, according to a new study, getting work done.
    — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Yet despite their prevalence, using whippets can carry risks, and the exact chemical composition of the drug evades most.
    — Katixa Espinoza, Them, 10 Oct. 2024
  • This disparity may be due to the prevalence — and popularity — of videos about ADHD on social media, university researchers speculate.
    — Renée Onque, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024

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