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poison

[poi-zuhn] / ˈpɔɪ zən /




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Analysts led by Matthew Lofting gently characterized BP’s recent tumultuous history as “chequered” but said the company’s balance sheet improvement means the stock is “no longer a poison pill.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

But as is so often the case in world affairs, there are no good guys in the story and you have to pick your poison.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

Research has found acetamiprid can poison honeybees, affecting their foraging capacity and memory, while a 2024 study suggested flupyradifurone could be lethal to some bees.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

Current treatments work reasonably well for chemical itch caused by irritants such as mosquito bites or poison ivy.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

“The poison tide gradually curves west,” said Brightbill, pointing.

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 he sure makes the strongest case for being the most malevolent, influential force there, a malignancy that poisons everything he touches.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 29, 2026

We need to understand why wishing ill on the other side is wrong and why such talk poisons civic life and dooms everyone.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2025

Combinations of attractants and poisons are being tried against several insect species.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Forensic pathologist Dr Louise Mulcahy said due to the limited remains, it was impossible to test if the child had any natural diseases or if he had been poisoned.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Today it is a symbol of a people who still seem poisoned and embittered by an attack that happened a quarter of a century ago.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

The Webb score is subtle and insinuating, but it could also be explosive, as in the devastating discovery cue dramatizing the heroine’s realization that she is being poisoned.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Ceuta and Spain's other north African enclave, Melilla, have the European Union's only land borders with Africa, and their status has historically poisoned relations between Madrid and Rabat.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

It comes after the UK Health Security Agency declared a national outbreak of salmonella food poisoning after one person died and hundreds more fell ill.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

“Obviously, I don’t want a bajillion data centers poisoning the earth,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

The staff’s “rebellion,” Ms. Rogoyska tells us, lay “not in poisoning the Germans’ soup but in keeping something hidden from their masters, right under their noses: the finest wine, and perhaps a few men, too.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Repeated exposures may lower the cholinesterase level until an individual reaches the brink of acute poisoning, a brink over which he may be pushed by a very small additional exposure.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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