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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

An antidote to August ennui: When Byard Duncan began to feel the creep of a midlife crisis, he realized that desperate times call for farcical measures.

From Slate Aug. 3, 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

"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

He skimmed over the other passages, looking for some information about an antidote to treat the poison.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 8, 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

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

From Salon Dec. 6, 2024

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

From BBC Jan. 7, 2024

“We try to have antidotes around. There are all manner of things that can happen to you in the woods.”

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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

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

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

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

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler

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

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

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

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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