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antidote

[an-ti-doht] / ˈæn tɪˌdoʊt /


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Join us on a time-travel adventure to the ’90s: If you’ve recently been paralyzed by choice or felt overconnected but underinvested in your friendships, Slate has an antidote for you.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

With anti-intellectualism in comedy on the rise, he says his book club stands as an antidote to the manosphere.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Initiatives like the Stop Killing Games movement may serve as a sort of antidote.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

Violet Black, from Edinburgh, Scotland, thinks walking can be a good antidote to isolation and loneliness.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

The antidote was recognition and an appreciation of the job’s unique difficulties.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

For the past five years, The Liana Trust has been studying venoms from species beyond the big four to develop antidotes to them.

From BBC Feb. 1, 2026

Statins, like Lipitor and Zocor, emerged as powerful antidotes starting in the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 8, 2025

Miller’s view is up close and personal, providing the reader with private antidotes while examining her poems and correlating them to geopolitical issues.

From Salon Oct. 30, 2025

For a decade, we were harried Los Angeles co-parents, entwined by conversations involving camp sign-ups, parent/teacher conferences, pediatrician appointments, dividing spring break weeks and the antidotes of two troublesome felines.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2025

If they got the answer wrong...Even with antidotes on hand, it would be unpleasant.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach, heart, and wine-pot, which is called the noddle, they had been altogether suffocated and choked with these detestable vapours.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Quia, though some water come out from thence, there never goes in any; for it is well antidoted with pot-proof armour and syrup of the vine-leaf.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

As civilization advances the tendency is for the average of life to lengthen, provided life does not grow so complex that knowledge is antidoted by too great artificiality.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.

Poisons of an alkaline nature, such as lye, washing soda, ammonia, etc., are antidoted with vinegar or lemon juice, followed by soothing drinks or sweet oil.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.

Remember that carbolic acid is not an acid, and is not antidoted with alkalines.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.

The mother is constantly antidoting and neutralizing the child's little troubles and discords by giving the opposite thought and applying the love-elixir.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

Ordinary quick-lime, or even plaster from the walls of the house, may be stirred up in water and administered to the sufferer, as both have a distinct value in antidoting the effects of this poison.

From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)

Hunters, warriors, and lovers have occasion to call upon him, and sometimes antidoting charms are sought, when the evil effects of an enemy’s work are to be counteracted.

From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Hoffman, Walter James

It is no anti-psoric, nor is it capable of antidoting the three miasms, or of inflicting medicinal diseases for life.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.

Mrs. Bloomer replied to Mr. Floyd through the same paper, meeting and refuting every objection, thus in a measure antidoting the poisonous influence of the senator's pronunciamento.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady




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