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adulteration

[uh-duhl-tuh-rey-shuhn] / əˌdʌl təˈreɪ ʃən /
NOUN
corruption
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Adulteration is a bitter truth in the sweet world of honey.

From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2023

Pedro Rendon applies himself to the Adulteration of Milk; Antonio Pujol to Cereals; Ramon Alva Guardarrama. eldest of the group, to a simple landscape of a Mexican wheat farm, hard and exact in detail.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: "Adulteration of intellectual material is as harmful socially as adulteration of food is physiologically."

From Time Magazine Archive

Adulteration of Sugar.—Sugar at the present time is not materially adulterated.

From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry

Ah—well, then, I think we can afford to ignore these Adulteration Acts—like the adulterators and the public authorities would—and proceed with the question of the adulteration.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various




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