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incidence

 noun
     
in‧ci‧dence [countable usually singular] formal
the number of times something happens, especially crime, disease etc [↪ rate]
incidence of
Why did the incidence of heroin use continue to climb?
high/low etc incidence
Smokers had the highest incidence of colds.
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