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
Chemo is a big pain if you’re delivering a drug, a chemotherapy, a chemical poison to your tumors, but it’s also hitting all of your own body’s ability to grow tissue.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Standing on the windswept central square of Slavutych, he said that his first, "nuclear" war was against an invisible, odourless poison.
From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026
Police in Austria have warned about potentially poisoned HiPP baby food circulating in the country, after a sample of the brand's purée tested positive for rat poison.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Roz had encountered the poison tide once again.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Vocabulary lists containing poison
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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