antidote
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The antidote to a cynical world might just be going a little Bananas, writes Jason Gay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
But that did not matter against a Raiders team that served as a welcome antidote for the injury-depleted Rams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Established in 1992, the Mercury Prize was envisaged as an antidote to the commercially-focused Brit Awards, recognising albums that moved music forwards, without recourse to fashion or trends.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
After brainstorming suitable targets with Claude, the team settled on designing a synthetic protein that could serve as an antidote to scorpion venom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The antidote was recognition and an appreciation of the job’s unique difficulties.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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“In that context, people are gravitating towards the largest players in the industry and looking at us to provide the antidotes to this development in AI,” Arora said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Miller’s view is up close and personal, providing the reader with private antidotes while examining her poems and correlating them to geopolitical issues.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
Consuming toxic shellfish can lead to death as there are no known antidotes, according to public health officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
American reassurances are the best antidotes to US scepticism, say analysts.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024
Slowly, Slughorn moved around the room, examining the various antidotes.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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But hitherto your admirable character has antidoted the poison; the detractor is despised, and every one's indignation raised against him.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
In this and some other respects Emerson is well antidoted by Carlyle, who lays the stress on the opposite qualities, and charges his hero to hold his tongue.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs
Remember that carbolic acid is not an acid, and is not antidoted with alkalines.
From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
Poisons of an alkaline nature, such as lye, washing soda, ammonia, etc., are antidoted with vinegar or lemon juice, followed by soothing drinks or sweet oil.
From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
As civilization advances the tendency is for the average of life to lengthen, provided life does not grow so complex that knowledge is antidoted by too great artificiality.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
It is no anti-psoric, nor is it capable of antidoting the three miasms, or of inflicting medicinal diseases for life.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf
Hunters, warriors, and lovers have occasion to call upon him, and sometimes antidoting charms are sought, when the evil effects of an enemy’s work are to be counteracted.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman
Ordinary quick-lime, or even plaster from the walls of the house, may be stirred up in water and administered to the sufferer, as both have a distinct value in antidoting the effects of this poison.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris
The mother is constantly antidoting and neutralizing the child's little troubles and discords by giving the opposite thought and applying the love-elixir.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
Mrs. Bloomer replied to Mr. Floyd through the same paper, meeting and refuting every objection, thus in a measure antidoting the poisonous influence of the senator's pronunciamento.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Power Prefix: Anti
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