- present participle of poison.
poisoning
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Pamela Price offered him a plea deal for one felony count of poisoning with no additional jail time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
When you suffer from food poisoning or another stomach bug, the tip of the villi can break off, says Pimentel, making you temporarily less adept at digesting dairy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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
It is named after Martha Mills, who died aged 13 at King's College Hospital in London in 2021 after developing blood poisoning or sepsis.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
These may be cases of secondary poisoning, caused by eating birds or mice that have accumulated insecticides in their livers or other organs.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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The Incline Village General Improvement District, which owns and manages the residents-only beach where the poisonings took place, has put up another $25,000 and installed additional cameras around the trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
They were protesting a fuel price hike and a free school meals programme that was blighted by mass food poisonings and corruption claims.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has fired the head of the agency responsible for his flagship free meals programme, which has been plagued by mass food poisonings and corruption allegations.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
But they say an exceptionally wet winter and then April rains have contributed to the rash of poisonings.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
But these poisonings from the agua mala came quickly and struck like a whiplash.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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