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toxicity

[tok-sis-i-tee] / tɒkˈsɪs ɪ ti /


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Protagonist’s job, Chief Executive Dinesh Patel explains, was to build in that toughness while leaving the toxicity behind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Mamdani won plaudits for recently revealing thousands of documents showing what city officials knew about toxicity levels of the air in Lower Manhattan following the attacks.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

How ironic that social media is the new breeding ground for the kind of toxicity that the people mining Panettiere’s death for views purport to abhor.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

She emerged from the reggaeton thunderstorm that hijacked the planet, but then guided it smoothly into a different aesthetic territory, far away from the movement’s misogynistic toxicity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Its informal name, dead-man's tree, is owed to its extreme toxicity; nearly every part of the umdhlebi tree is poisonous.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Babies were especially vulnerable to these toxicities, resulting in high rates of infants with birth defects and illnesses.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2024

"The potency of current immunotherapy agents can be readily diminished as the cancer metastasizes and the genome alters. Also, current immunotherapy has been associated with substantial expenses and various toxicities, including neurological events."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023

But genetically modified wheat has never been grown for commercial purposes due to consumer fears that allergens or toxicities could emerge in a staple used worldwide for bread, pasta and pastries.

From Reuters ● Mar. 3, 2023

The company Fujifilm Irvine Scientific quietly recalled four production lots of the oil used to culture embryos on Jan. 16 after complaints of problems from clinics and its internal investigation discovered the toxicities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

She wants to see whether it correctly predicts brewing toxicities and influences how doctors care for patients, perhaps enabling them to prevent hospitalizations by starting immune suppression and other treatments sooner.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 30, 2022



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