incidence

In a sentence

Six example sentences with incidence, each labelled with its topic.

• The clinic tracked the incidence of childhood asthma across four districts and found twice as many cases near the highway.

  Medicine

• Warmer winters have raised the incidence of beetle outbreaks in spruce forests from two per decade to nearly six.

  Environment

• Economists compared the incidence of bankruptcy filings in cities where rent controls were lifted against those where they stayed.

  Economics

• The league tracked the incidence of ankle injuries on the new court surface and found it nearly doubled.

  Basketball

• After the rewrite, the incidence of crashes fell from one in every two hundred sessions to one in nine thousand.

  Technology

• The survey measured the incidence of burnout among nurses and found it highest on wards with the most overtime.

  Psychology

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• empirical
• altered
• perspective
• criterion
• summarise
• pursued
• advocacy
• cite
• derived
• confer
• differentiated
• presumption