poisoning
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“Obviously, I don’t want a bajillion data centers poisoning the earth,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Thousands of cases food poisoning happen each year in the UK caused by lots of different strains of salmonella.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The staff’s “rebellion,” Ms. Rogoyska tells us, lay “not in poisoning the Germans’ soup but in keeping something hidden from their masters, right under their noses: the finest wine, and perhaps a few men, too.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Over that period, the laboratory received 274 samples connected to 201 suspected cases of either deliberate or accidental poisoning across the UK, Ireland, and Gibraltar.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The whole problem of pesticide poisoning is enormously complicated by the fact that a human being, unlike a laboratory animal living under rigidly controlled conditions, is never exposed to one chemical alone.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Campbell had suspected Low of "planting" items which were allegedly found during a raid on his then-home on the estate after alleged bird poisonings.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
California has seen an uptick in mushroom poisonings, with four people dying and 47 becoming seriously ill since November, according to the release.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
When mushroom poisonings make the headlines, people who aren’t a part of the fungi community tend to see those who are as being irresponsible or ruining habitats, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
She also charts instances of plots, poisonings and refusals to work, actions that caused significant upheaval.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 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
