adulterate

It is one thing to alter the competition, another to adulterate or corrupt it - La Liga accepts the first suggestion, but not the second.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

Now, he can rest easy: There's no economic incentive to adulterate his product.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2023

A clever entrepreneur could establish a weight-loss program entirely on the basis of alerting people to the larvae and dry rot and beetle eggs that adulterate their favorite foods.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021

Little five-spice seasoning or herbs adulterate this meat.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2021

Milk is a source of contagion through contaminated water used to wash cans, or to adulterate it, or through handling of it by patients or those who have come in contact with patients.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow

But no matter how any culture adulterates this, chicken soup remains a familiar, familial elixir that hearkens back to when your mom simmered a pot for you on a cold, damp day.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

L invades her home, adulterates it with his grimace, and then turns his canvas in another direction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2021

Schamus cuts or adulterates everything in the novel that’s an audacity of form or a leap of vision.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2016

This triangulating trend developed overseas: For the European market, Coca-Cola adulterates its Fanta with acesulfame-K and aspartame, and slips stevia into its cans of Sprite.

From Slate ● May 13, 2013

Gold adulterates one thing only,—the human heart.—Marguerite de Valois.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch

Promoting slum clearance and clean water while preventing adulterated food addressed popular grievances while offering competent, uncontroversial government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Prices doubled, and gas stations began selling adulterated fuel that damaged many vehicles.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Zhu’s partner, Wang, is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and distribution of adulterated and misbranded medical devices in connection with the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

And more recently in April, food and drugs control authorities in Gujarat seized more than 60,000kg of adulterated spices - chilli powder, turmeric and coriander power and pickle masala.

From BBC ● May 14, 2024

If the car hadn’t been adulterated for the mysterious and missing goats, it would hold thirty-two horses.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

"It's totally adulterating the competition," Courtois told a news conference.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025

From interviews, they also understood the motive: Brighter roots led to more profit, and adulterating with a consistently bright paint agent could disguise poorer-quality roots.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2023

The buying spree followed the melamine crisis when Chinese producers had been adulterating milk, baby formula and other foods with melamine, a chemical that is toxic in large quantities, to increase their apparent protein content.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2020

For example, a decade after Chinese milk producers were revealed to be adulterating infant formula, Chinese parents still shun the country’s dairy industry and distrust of food producers remains almost universal.

From The Verge ● Jul. 10, 2019

The chief use, however, of potato-farina as an edible starch is for adulterating other and more costly preparations.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various