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This week's word in the news: BORNE
DEFINITION:
Carried or transported or transmitted by the thing specified.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Boston Public Health Commission is warning of a dangerous rat-borne disease that puts the homeless at “high risk” as the rodent population and encampments boom side by side in Mass and Cass.
►The Boston Herald -- 10/18/2021
