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Alas, we live in a media economy in which alarmism rules and uncertainty is treated like audience poison.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Analysts led by Matthew Lofting gently characterized BP’s recent tumultuous history as “chequered” but said the company’s balance sheet improvement means the stock is “no longer a poison pill.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Rather than acting like a conventional fast-acting poison, it disrupts the insect's ability to manufacture enough chitin for the next exoskeleton.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

"The only way we can root out this poison is through a whole of society approach."

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

“Go find the Ancient Shark! Go stop the poison tide! Go on, Roz, get moving!”

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Nicola, a poisons information specialist, had received her paddleboard for her 40th birthday just weeks earlier and had been excited about going on the trip run by Lloyd's company, Salty Dog Co Ltd.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

The soil is packed with poisons, and massive dust storms obscure the sun for months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

But he sure makes the strongest case for being the most malevolent, influential force there, a malignancy that poisons everything he touches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

We need to understand why wishing ill on the other side is wrong and why such talk poisons civic life and dooms everyone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

Although today’s poisons are more dangerous than any known before, they have amazingly become something to be showered down indiscriminately from the skies.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

The attacks escalated this summer, with 16 trees — 13 Jeffrey pines and three white firs — poisoned on three occasions between May and early August.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

"When I first heard that a tree next to a museum had been poisoned with herbicide and was dying, I simply couldn't believe it," says activist Choi Jin-woo.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Today it is a symbol of a people who still seem poisoned and embittered by an attack that happened a quarter of a century ago.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

“Art made to get a result is drawing water from a poisoned well.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

“If only my Olive could be present. We were hoping to give Olive Her Chance. But, poor girl, she’s sicker than a poisoned pup. I don’t know where it’s all coming from!”

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

He said a woman and three children were hospitalised "with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning" in the region after drone debris fell on a house, causing a fire.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Lead poisoning is "particularly harmful to young children" and can "severely damage the brain and central nervous system", according to the World Health Organization.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Last week, Yuan published a research paper on the long-term effects of cadmium poisoning suffered by herself, her mother and her father.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Abatement work has exploded in recent years as a more humane alternative to poisoning or killing the birds, Coulson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Extreme care must be used in order to create an insecticidal effect in the blood and tissues of the host without setting up a fatal poisoning.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson