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And making this sort of bet inside your brokerage account could contaminate your thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Our water system’s decentralized, fragmented nature, perhaps a bit like our electoral system, is a double-edged sword, inasmuch as its vulnerabilities are atomized—at least a single hacker can’t contaminate all the water in the country.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

These blooms can contaminate seafood and create significant health hazards for people who consume or come into contact with affected marine environments.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

The illness is caused by a parasite, cyclospora, that can contaminate food like salads, herbs and soft fruits.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Even as I try to get her out of my mind, the memories seep back from the past to contaminate the here and now.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Cyclospora is a parasite that contaminates leafy greens, berries and herbs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

“If a worker contaminates lettuce, that lettuce will likely be eaten before it becomes infectious,” Todd said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

The production of PFAS-coated pans also exposes factory workers to those chemicals, and the wastewater from factories like those are what contaminates waterways, landfills and, in some cases, farmland.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024

He said other contaminates — food waste, dyes, adhesives, etc. — could also potentially cause problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024

Radiation in space contaminates everything the body needs.

From The Impossible Voyage Home by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

The relatively small sample means the findings cannot yet establish how radioactive particles behave throughout the entire contaminated region.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

A council leader says he will support a public inquiry into contaminated land in a town, following a report published last week that revealed it could pose a risk to human health.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Amoth also said that a dedicated laboratory had been set up at the Kenyatta National Hospital Infectious Disease Unit to handle Ebola tests, to ensure that the hospital's laboratory was not contaminated.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

After our office was cleared, we were all sent home, only to be told to return the next day to drop off our contaminated clothes in trash bags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The result, as might have been predicted, was that the honey made by the bees also was contaminated with schradan.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

In the 1920s, a modest mercury mine grew into a large open-pit operation, contaminating the watershed with the toxic metal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Researchers found that methane released in spacecraft exhaust may spread across the moon surprisingly quickly, potentially contaminating regions that could preserve ancient chemical clues about how life first emerged on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

The disaster unleashed toxic sludge into the Kafue River, contaminating land and leaving residents without clean water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

On land, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that Israeli strikes on Tehran fuel depots constituted "ecocide", contaminating soil and groundwater and causing long-term risks to people's health.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

On top of that you must make allowances for distortions caused by variations in the Earth’s atmosphere, by intergalactic dust, contaminating light from foreground stars, and many other factors.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson