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Paiva also hopes to examine whether materials besides methane, including compounds released from spacecraft components such as paint and rubber, could contaminate scientifically important lunar sites.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

Saltwater is beginning to contaminate farmland reclaimed over the past five centuries from the delta marshes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

The farm screens each batch for four types of bacteria: salmonella, E. coli, campylobacter and listeria, all of which thrive in the intestines of cattle and can contaminate milk through microscopic flecks of infected feces.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

The seemingly limitless proliferation of cases in which lawyers have been caught letting fictitious AI-generated legal citations contaminate their briefs continues to amaze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

If you haven’t been keeping the tree suspended in memory, the word islands, which is ringing in your mind’s ear just before you type the verb, will contaminate the number you give the verb.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“If a worker contaminates lettuce, that lettuce will likely be eaten before it becomes infectious,” Todd said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Like when I would talk to people, they would raise concerns about how the demolition contaminates the ground around them.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026

Water shortages are not new, but many countries, especially in the global south, are experiencing climate change-related intense drought and flooding that contaminates water sources.

From BBC ● May 27, 2024

The district attorney’s letter noted that “new documentable scientific consensus emerged in 2020 that a witness’s memory for a suspect should be tested only once, as even the test itself contaminates the witness’s memory.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

Radiation in space contaminates everything the body needs.

From The Impossible Voyage Home by Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.)

When people eat these contaminated shellfish or fish, they can get Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning, which can lead to vomiting, diarrhea, permanent short-term memory loss, coma or death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

All eyes are on Taylor Farms and their contaminated lettuce, Trump tries a new tariff tactic, and Japan’s prime minister claims to barely sleep.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026

After analysing a plastic recover facility in Manchester with a processing capacity of 35,000 tonnes of plastic a year, for six months, the company found that BuzzBallz contaminated recycled plastic 66% of the time.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Getting to the bottom of foodborne illnesses is challenging, partly because the contaminated food might not be readily available by the time that health authorities become aware of a problem and look into it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

This seepage had continued to spread and had further contaminated an area of unknown extent.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Researchers found that methane released in spacecraft exhaust may spread across the moon surprisingly quickly, potentially contaminating regions that could preserve ancient chemical clues about how life first emerged on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

The disaster unleashed toxic sludge into the Kafue River, contaminating land and leaving residents without clean water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

On land, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that Israeli strikes on Tehran fuel depots constituted "ecocide", contaminating soil and groundwater and causing long-term risks to people's health.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

The firestorm ravaged Pacific Palisades and Altadena, killing 31, destroying more than 16,000 structures and contaminating others with toxins and heavy metals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

The latest outbreak was allegedly the result of human waste contaminating a local water supply in the central plateau.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French