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antidote

[an-ti-doht] / ˈæn tɪˌdoʊt /


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The show promises to teach Americans how to eat “real food,” presenting recognizable ingredients and home cooking as an antidote to a processed-food culture portrayed as artificial, addictive and imposed from above.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

Join us on a time-travel adventure to the ’90s: If you’ve recently been paralyzed by choice or felt overconnected but underinvested in your friendships, Slate has an antidote for you.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

With anti-intellectualism in comedy on the rise, he says his book club stands as an antidote to the manosphere.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

A. I find that the best antidote to gloom is a chat with somebody who’s both a visionary and highly practical.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The best antidote to astrology in particular and to pseudoscience in general is, as Carl Sagan has written, real science, whose wonders are as amazing but have the added virtue of probably being real.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

For the past five years, The Liana Trust has been studying venoms from species beyond the big four to develop antidotes to them.

From BBC Feb. 1, 2026

“Degrowth” is one of the best antidotes to our hyper-consumerist culture.

From Salon Dec. 31, 2025

Statins, like Lipitor and Zocor, emerged as powerful antidotes starting in the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 8, 2025

Consuming toxic shellfish can lead to death as there are no known antidotes, according to public health officials.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2025

Harry pulled out his trusty copy of Advanced Potion-Making and turned to the chapter on antidotes.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Quia, though some water come out from thence, there never goes in any; for it is well antidoted with pot-proof armour and syrup of the vine-leaf.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux

Poisons of an alkaline nature, such as lye, washing soda, ammonia, etc., are antidoted with vinegar or lemon juice, followed by soothing drinks or sweet oil.

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler

Remember that carbolic acid is not an acid, and is not antidoted with alkalines.

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler

In this and some other respects Emerson is well antidoted by Carlyle, who lays the stress on the opposite qualities, and charges his hero to hold his tongue.

From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs

As civilization advances the tendency is for the average of life to lengthen, provided life does not grow so complex that knowledge is antidoted by too great artificiality.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker

Ordinary quick-lime, or even plaster from the walls of the house, may be stirred up in water and administered to the sufferer, as both have a distinct value in antidoting the effects of this poison.

From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris

Hunters, warriors, and lovers have occasion to call upon him, and sometimes antidoting charms are sought, when the evil effects of an enemy’s work are to be counteracted.

From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman

It is no anti-psoric, nor is it capable of antidoting the three miasms, or of inflicting medicinal diseases for life.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf

The mother is constantly antidoting and neutralizing the child's little troubles and discords by giving the opposite thought and applying the love-elixir.

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Mrs. Bloomer replied to Mr. Floyd through the same paper, meeting and refuting every objection, thus in a measure antidoting the poisonous influence of the senator's pronunciamento.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton




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