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poison

[poi-zuhn] / ˈpɔɪ zən /




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A girl named Sham was born in Gaza in November 2023 and survived smoke poisoning as an infant.

From Salon

He said that in the past wells had been associated with poisoning and illness and many of the public wells in Glasgow were capped and then forgotten.

From BBC

Do I tell my sister and brother-in-law that the turkey was undercooked last year and could have given us all food poisoning?

From MarketWatch

Ms. Pitts’s revelation of Robin’s disappointments in her life—she works at a coffee shop, and made a mistake that poisoned her relationship with Melissa—is touchingly but unsentimentally rendered.

From The Wall Street Journal

The WHO has described this as the largest mass poisoning in history.

From Science Daily