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food poisoning

NOUN
poisoning caused by eating food
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Around 2,000 students and teachers across Indonesia have fallen ill with food poisoning over the past three days linked to the government's free school meals programme.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

I’m such an oyster person that I’ve actually gotten food poisoning twice in the past two years from oysters and I will not let that stop me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Salmonella, a bacterial pathogen, is one of the most common causes of food poisoning.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Given the state of epidemiology and data analysis, food poisoning probably shouldn’t be a monthlong mystery, and yet here we are.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

I thought it might be the flu, when I could still think, or food poisoning from the pieces of fat.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen



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