preservative
Example Sentences
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It is commonly used as a preservative, an antibacterial agent, and in leather tanning.
From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026
Both shoppers say they prefer to buy foods that are preservative free when possible.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
More than 700,000 of those products contained at least one preservative.
From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2026
The new panel made its first decision last week, voting to stop recommending a small number of flu vaccines that still contain the preservative thimerosal, something Kennedy wrote a book about in 2015.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025
Entomology smells like mothballs and oil: a preservative that, Dr. Geffard explains, is called naphthalene.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Vocabulary lists containing preservative
Novel Study: Fahrenheit 451, Part I
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