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He expected the chemical would addle mitochondria in every organ.

From Science Magazine ● May 4, 2023

Her putter works just fine from medium to long range; it’s the tiddlers that get her nerves jangling and addle the head.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2019

The company will also remove nests, transport injured birds to rehabilitation centers and addle the eggs.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2018

The company will also remove nests, transport injured birds to rehabilitation centers and addle eggs.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2018

“You’ll addle your brains if you don’t watch out.”

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

With their shallow root systems, addled by disease, the trees wouldn’t put up much resistance.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Los Angeles and Tucson, Ariz. Despite many close friendships, especially with women, he was at heart a loner, conditioned, possibly, by clinical depression, for which he sought electroshock therapy even though it addled his brain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Though he’d been addled by the ailment, he understood that his son had managed to preserve the family business.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025

But, like every addled maniac, his hatred lacks focus.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

This imbalance provoked criticism for its promotion of the belief that all chess players are seriously addled.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

He said social media could create "greater connections and a sense of belonging" but also came with risks including the "harm of addling the developing mind of young people".

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

It is the play itself that lurches and rocks us, addling our expectation of narrative coherence in order to take us inside the sort of experience that can’t be grasped with the mind alone.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 30, 2019

I can't decide if it is amusing, ironic or horrifying to note that Universities, institutions allegedly dedicated to expanding and improving the mind, principally responsible for addling the brains of their matriculants.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2018

The blaze has been propelled by a heatwave addling much of the nation, in addition to the naturally dry and windy conditions of Southern California's Santa Clarita Valley, the area affected by the fire.

From US News ● Jul. 25, 2016

With the algebraists, however, who are pagans themselves, the 'pagan fables' are believed, and the inferences are made, not so much through lapse of memory as through an unaccountable addling of the brains.

From Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories by Joseph Lewis French