antidote
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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
She approaches the net with her son Ian Foon, 4, and readies the racket to swat away water balloons — a perfect antidote to a hot summer day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
Adara wound her arm around Luna’s shoulder, an antidote to sorrow.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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As blood-stirring antidotes go, it’s a good one.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing antidote
Power Prefix: Anti
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