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antidote

[an-ti-doht] / ˈæn tɪˌdoʊt /


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The series is the couple’s prescribed antidote to the social media doomscrolling they call “internet indigestion.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Belien, who until Wednesday had not been known as one of his customers, said she had physically recovered after being successfully given an antidote by medics.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Starbucks bets $1 billion on coffee-house antidote to lonely digital lives.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Mr. McMullan is an effective antidote to the more bilious goings on—the acting is much more flamboyant in the Atticus story than in Susan’s, which is less entertaining than distracting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

And obediently, Dumbledore drank, as though it was an antidote Harry offered him, but upon draining the goblet, he sank to his knees, shaking uncontrollably.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

Consuming toxic shellfish can lead to death as there are no known antidotes, according to public health officials.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

Getting into nature and engaging with your environment is one of the best antidotes.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

In this and some other respects Emerson is well antidoted by Carlyle, who lays the stress on the opposite qualities, and charges his hero to hold his tongue.

From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs

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

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler

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

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

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

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

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




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