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antidote

[an-ti-doht] / ˈæn tɪˌdoʊt /


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

From Salon Aug. 30, 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

If humanized, the Bowl could serve as antidote to a worrisome AI future.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 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

“Oh, you’re like your mother.... Well, I can’t fault you… A bezoar would certainly act as an antidote to all these potions!”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

“Degrowth” is one of the best antidotes to our hyper-consumerist culture.

From Salon Dec. 31, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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