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nitroglycerin

[nahy-truh-glis-er-in] / ˌnaɪ trəˈglɪs ər ɪn /
NOUN
dynamite
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As if those choices were comparably distasteful when, in fact, one is vanilla and the other is nitroglycerin.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

Doctors had been prescribing nitroglycerin for angina and other heart ailments for over a century — including, coincidentally, to Alfred Nobel, who founded the Nobel Prizes.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2023

And that was before the idiotic failure to call 911 or at least grab the emergency nitroglycerin pill she knew was in the bedside drawer.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021

Since then, he has kept nitroglycerin pills in his left pocket for pain relief.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020

The following day, Friday, June 26, Haupt and Wernecke went to the drugstore to buy nitroglycerin pills.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple




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