antidote
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“That is the antidote to promotions,” Chief Financial Officer Frank Sluis told me in a recent interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Starbucks bets $1 billion on coffee-house antidote to lonely digital lives.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
"Why rely on horse antibodies when nature has packaged an effective antidote right there in the snake?"
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
The side serving of jasmine rice and roti was the perfect antidote to the addictive lingering spice hit.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
She could think of no better antidote for the dark mood of the children; besides, turning her mind to the adventures of that lovable pony was likely to settle her nerves as well.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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This consensus is one of the strongest antidotes to civil conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 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
Getting into nature and engaging with your environment is one of the best antidotes.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
American reassurances are the best antidotes to US scepticism, say analysts.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024
And there it was, scrawled right across a long list of antidotes: Just shove a bezoar down their throats.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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Remember that carbolic acid is not an acid, and is not antidoted with alkalines.
From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
But hitherto your admirable character has antidoted the poison; the detractor is despised, and every one's indignation raised against him.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
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 R. L. Alsaker
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 Peter Anthony Motteux
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 Peter Anthony Motteux
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 Orison Swett Marden
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 H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris
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 Walter James Hoffman
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 C. W. Wolf
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Power Prefix: Anti
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