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
Blue Planet II followed in 2017, and helped alert the world to "the crime of chucking plastic into the ocean that can throttle and poison creatures, including ourselves", Sir David told BBC News in 2019.
From BBC • May 8, 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
"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
Roz had encountered the poison tide once again.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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Vocabulary lists containing poison
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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