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antidote

[an-ti-doht] / ˈæn tɪˌdoʊt /


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An antidote to August ennui: When Byard Duncan began to feel the creep of a midlife crisis, he realized that desperate times call for farcical measures.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

If humanized, the Bowl could serve as antidote to a worrisome AI future.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 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

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

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

“Degrowth” is one of the best antidotes to our hyper-consumerist culture.

From Salon Dec. 31, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 8, 2025

In this light, the numerous rumors that spread in the early days of the pandemic about its origins, impacts and potential antidotes are unsurprising.

From Seattle Times May 12, 2023

“We try to have antidotes around. There are all manner of things that can happen to you in the woods.”

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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 Richardson, Samuel

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 Burroughs, John

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

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

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

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.

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)

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

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

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

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.




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