poison
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In California, the cats’ population faces several threats — including human encroachment, loss of habitat and prey due to wildfires, rat poison, disease and vehicle collisions.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
Like Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” before it, the film works best when viewed as a retrospective analysis of an entertainer’s life, and how easily cynicism can poison a child’s boundless imagination.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
Blue Planet II followed in 2017, and helped alert the world to "the crime of chucking plastic into the ocean that can throttle and poison creatures, including ourselves", Sir David told BBC News in 2019.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Chemo is a big pain if you’re delivering a drug, a chemotherapy, a chemical poison to your tumors, but it’s also hitting all of your own body’s ability to grow tissue.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
She wondered how many of them were at risk of being wiped out by the poison tide.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Vocabulary lists containing poison
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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