foreign substance

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Because EVs can be produced with materials largely found in a patient's own cells, the body is less likely to treat the particles as a foreign substance.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023

He was suspended for 10 games by Major League Baseball on April 20 after getting ejected for having a foreign substance on his pitching hand during his April 19 start against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

From Washington Times • May 4, 2023

Mets’ Max Scherzer was ejected while pitching against the Dodgers for having a foreign substance on his glove and a potential substance on his hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023

“Players who are found to have used a foreign substance following a prior suspension for violating the rule will be subject to more severe, progressive discipline for each subsequent violation,” Hill said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023

A grain of sand, or some such minute foreign substance, gets within the jealous valves of the mollusk and causes great irritation to the soft body of the pulpy inhabitant.

From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Orpen, Mrs Goddard