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poison

noun as in substance that causes harm, death

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A girl named Sham was born in Gaza in November 2023 and survived smoke poisoning as an infant.

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He said that in the past wells had been associated with poisoning and illness and many of the public wells in Glasgow were capped and then forgotten.

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Do I tell my sister and brother-in-law that the turkey was undercooked last year and could have given us all food poisoning?

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Ms. Pitts’s revelation of Robin’s disappointments in her life—she works at a coffee shop, and made a mistake that poisoned her relationship with Melissa—is touchingly but unsentimentally rendered.

The WHO has described this as the largest mass poisoning in history.

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