contaminating

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Microplastics and nanoplastics are widely known for contaminating oceans, rivers, and farmland.

From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026

Outbreaks of typhoid at the time were, in part, blamed on sewage pollution of the water, contaminating the shellfish that were a large part of the diet for poorer communities.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

Particles emitted from a fusion plasma will erode the reactor wall, contaminating the plasma and rendering most known materials brittle and porous within months.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

A court recently ordered PPC to pay around 1.5 million euros in damages for contaminating the groundwater due to poor management of ash around the nearby city of Kozani.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

The dead rabbit, which had seemed, at first, such a clean thing, was now wholly revolting, defiled and contaminating.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill