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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

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

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

Adulteration seems to have become an instinct of trade.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Adulteration or misbranding of any foods, drugs, medicines, or liquors manufactured anywhere for sale in another state, was forbidden under heavy penalties. %585.

From A School History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach




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