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antidote

[an-ti-doht] / ˈæn tɪˌdoʊt /


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But Nigel Benn believes he has mapped out the exact antidote to Garcia's firepower.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Starbucks bets $1 billion on coffee-house antidote to lonely digital lives.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The side serving of jasmine rice and roti was the perfect antidote to the addictive lingering spice hit.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

It is meant as an antidote to what she calls the “irritatingly persistent myth” that Roman slavery was not really so awful after all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“It’s this weird antidote he has to his ‘the world is going to blow up’ theory,” she said.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

This consensus is one of the strongest antidotes to civil conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

Miller’s view is up close and personal, providing the reader with private antidotes while examining her poems and correlating them to geopolitical issues.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

For a decade, we were harried Los Angeles co-parents, entwined by conversations involving camp sign-ups, parent/teacher conferences, pediatrician appointments, dividing spring break weeks and the antidotes of two troublesome felines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

American reassurances are the best antidotes to US scepticism, say analysts.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024

Staring nastily around at them all, he informed them that he would be testing them on poison antidotes during the last lesson of the term.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

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

And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach, heart, and wine-pot, which is called the noddle, they had been altogether suffocated and choked with these detestable vapours.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux

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

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

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler

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

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

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




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