contaminate

And making this sort of bet inside your brokerage account could contaminate your thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Our water system’s decentralized, fragmented nature, perhaps a bit like our electoral system, is a double-edged sword, inasmuch as its vulnerabilities are atomized—at least a single hacker can’t contaminate all the water in the country.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

Heat also fuels toxic algae blooms containing domoic acid, which contaminate the anchovy and sardine populations.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Paiva also hopes to examine whether materials besides methane, including compounds released from spacecraft components such as paint and rubber, could contaminate scientifically important lunar sites.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

We have seen that they now contaminate soil, water, and food, that they have the power to make our streams fishless and our gardens and woodlands silent and birdless.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Cyclospora is a parasite that contaminates leafy greens, berries and herbs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

“If a worker contaminates lettuce, that lettuce will likely be eaten before it becomes infectious,” Todd said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

In Italy if one resident contaminates the wrong bin, the whole block can expect a fine, she explains.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

The other thing is that stress contaminates memory, so you can have two people in the same room telling completely opposite stories.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2024

The roaring bookmaker who contaminates the air with his cries, and who grows wealthy on the spoil of fools—he is an idler.

From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by James Runciman

After our office was cleared, we were all sent home, only to be told to return the next day to drop off our contaminated clothes in trash bags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Yuan said she’d dealt with years of chronic health issues and believed her dad’s death last September was due to some of the contaminated water he ingested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Based on my knowledge and everything I saw and experienced, East Palestine has always been more polluted and contaminated than what the EPA ever stated,” Dixon said in an interview with the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

In April 2022, Moore tested positive for nandrolone and boldenone at a WTA 250 event in Bogota, with an independent tribunal ruling in December 2023 that contaminated meat was the source.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Not only do these areas receive the contaminated discharge of rivers but all too commonly they are sprayed directly in efforts to control mosquitoes or other insects.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Before the virus was identified, it spread from herd to herd, infecting cattle and contaminating their surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

Investigators eventually suspected that the bacteria were airborne and had infected people after contaminating the air conditioning system at the convention hotel.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

The disaster unleashed toxic sludge into the Kafue River, contaminating land and leaving residents without clean water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

On land, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that Israeli strikes on Tehran fuel depots constituted "ecocide", contaminating soil and groundwater and causing long-term risks to people's health.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

The dead rabbit, which had seemed, at first, such a clean thing, was now wholly revolting, defiled and contaminating.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill