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  • past tense form of taint.
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tainted

[teyn-tid] / ˈteɪn tɪd /


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Andy Evans, of campaign group Tainted Blood, told reporters that he and others “felt like we were shouting into the wind during the last 40 years.”

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2024

“When polio vaccine backfired / Tainted batches killed 10 and paralyzed 164,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, 2005.

From Slate • Sep. 28, 2023

Searling himself discovered Tainted Love by Gloria Jones in a vast warehouse used for storing deletions, cut-outs and returned stock in Philadelphia.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2023

Tainted water and soil and dirty indoor air put Chad, the Central African Republic and Niger as the three countries with the most pollution-related deaths, according to data adjusted for population.

From Reuters • May 17, 2022

Here from distempered heavens erewhile arose A piteous season, with the full fierce heat Of autumn glowed, and cattle-kindreds all And all wild creatures to destruction gave, Tainted the pools, the fodder charged with bane.

From The Georgics by Virgil




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