poison
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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
And if you can deliver the poison straight to the tumor, you can have a much, much higher dose of chemotherapy.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
A 39-year-old man has been arrested in Austria in connection with a case in which rat poison was found in jars of baby food, police say.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
"Political hatred has no place in our democracies. We will not allow fanaticism to poison the spaces of free debate and information," she said.
From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026
“We caught the frogs in a patch of poison ivy.”
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
Vocabulary lists containing poison
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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