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antidote

[an-ti-doht] / ˈæn tɪˌdoʊt /


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Bell-ringers say their hobby offers an antidote, bringing people together to learn, practice and socialise face-to-face.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

“Action is absolutely the antidote to despair,” Dubin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

“That is the antidote to promotions,” Chief Financial Officer Frank Sluis told me in a recent interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Not really. But it seems to me that if you wait around until you know you need an antidote, it’s probably too late to pick one up.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 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

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

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

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

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler

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

But hitherto your admirable character has antidoted the poison; the detractor is despised, and every one's indignation raised against him.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson

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

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

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


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