intoxication

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Francois Blanchecotte, president of France's Federation of Medical Laboratories, said the urine test -- and possibly blood test -- would be able to determine if someone suffered from a "significant chronic intoxication".

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

This rare and frequently misunderstood condition causes individuals to experience intoxication even though they have not consumed alcohol.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

Swept up at the age of 6 in the national intoxication with truth-telling, young Misha devoured glasnost’s flagship weekly, Ogonyok.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

“I’ll say: ‘The feeling of this piece is intoxication, it’s cosmic.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Perhaps he’s reached that state of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood