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antidote

[an-ti-doht] / ˈæn tɪˌdoʊt /


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"In some ways it is a bit of an antidote in the sense that it gives people some relief from the more exhausting sides of football social media," he told the BBC.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

The four episodes of “Abandoned” offer another gripping antidote.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

“To have this gentleman who just exuded kindness and compassion was like an antidote to all the tumult and vitriol in the world,” Couric said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

New York real estate firms are increasingly converting office buildings into apartment complexes as an antidote to the city's housing crunch, tapping into tax incentives also designed to increase the supply of affordable homes.

From Barron's Jun. 14, 2026

There had to be a treatment, an antidote somewhere.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

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

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 8, 2025

Civic education, critical thinking, and credible journalism are essential antidotes to disinformation.

From Barron's Oct. 24, 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

Getting into nature and engaging with your environment is one of the best antidotes.

From Salon Dec. 6, 2024

If they got the answer wrong...Even with antidotes on hand, it would be unpleasant.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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 Alsaker, R. L.

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 Motteux, Peter Anthony

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 Motteux, Peter Anthony

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 Sadler, William S.

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

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.

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 Wolf, C. W.

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 Hoffman, Walter James

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 Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)

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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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 Marden, Orison Swett




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