preservative
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In 1941, the company purchased distilling facilities in Virginia and Lyons, N.Y., to increase production, then during the war it made pectin, a vital preservative used in military food rations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Researchers compared samples collected with and without a preservative and found 98.75% agreement between results, showing that the preservative did not interfere with the test.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
Overall preservative consumption was linked to a 47% higher risk.
From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2026
The new panel made its first decision last week, voting to stop recommending a small number of flu vaccines that still contain the preservative thimerosal, something Kennedy wrote a book about in 2015.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025
A white snake in a jar of preservative stared blindly down at them.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing preservative
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