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poison

[poi-zuhn] / ˈpɔɪ zən /




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Before 2021, poison control centers nationwide typically handled between 1,000 and 1,500 GLP-1RA related cases each year.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

Ripping out the poison of antisemitism, restoring trust on the economy, defence, and national security.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

In California, the cats’ population faces several threats — including human encroachment, loss of habitat and prey due to wildfires, rat poison, disease and vehicle collisions.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

Like Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” before it, the film works best when viewed as a retrospective analysis of an entertainer’s life, and how easily cynicism can poison a child’s boundless imagination.

From Salon Jun. 2, 2026

The poison tide clouded her vision, so she had to move slowly.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

The move comes amid evidence the poisons are killing songbirds, which like to feather their nests with dog and cat hair, as well as contaminating rivers, killing aquatic life.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

The soil is packed with poisons, and massive dust storms obscure the sun for months.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 2026

But then he enacts the scene in which Iago subtly poisons Othello’s mind into believing that his wife is having an affair with a handsome lieutenant.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2026

But cerberin poisons this pump, which can cause the heart's electrical system to fail.

From Salon Apr. 10, 2025

Nothing about blusher mushrooms, nothing about poisons at all.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Scores of protesters marched a mile from the site of the hazardous blaze to the meeting, chanting as they walked that the warehouse had poisoned their community and they wanted it removed permanently.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

"It's kind of a poisoned chalice for any Chinese defence minister to speak out publicly," said Jennifer Parker, adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia's Defence and Security Institute.

From Barron's May 29, 2026

Well, in the words of Will Young, who turned down the chance to represent the UK in 2015, Eurovision is considered a "poisoned chalice".

From BBC May 17, 2026

To end the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the regime’s first supreme leader, made the difficult call to end the fighting, a decision he likened to drinking from a poisoned chalice.

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 2026

I know that mice get hunted and they sometimes get poisoned or caught in traps.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

Whether due to stress or poisoning, his death at 49 was a national catastrophe.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Lowri made the decision to avoid meat for the trip, hoping it would help her to avoid food poisoning, but Dr Healy believes she inadvertently ate pork that contained microscopic tapeworm eggs.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Both Panelli and his wife, Julie, came down with food poisoning.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

He does not seem to think about the jobs it will destroy, the way it is poisoning creativity or education, the way it warps our shared sense of reality.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

He was the grandson of William Stepson, the steer-roping champion who had died, of suspected poisoning, in 1922.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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