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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

When the will is in evil, it adulterates good in the understanding, and good adulterated in the understanding is evil in the will, for it confirms that evil is good and good is evil.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.