adulterate

It is one thing to alter the competition, another to adulterate or corrupt it - La Liga accepts the first suggestion, but not the second.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

Now, he can rest easy: There's no economic incentive to adulterate his product.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2023

Little five-spice seasoning or herbs adulterate this meat.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2021

You don’t take a food celebrated for one property alone — pickles are sour — and adulterate its central character and declare it brilliant.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2021

They speak a pagan tongue in Boondi, swallow half their words, and adulterate the remainder with local patois.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

But no matter how any culture adulterates this, chicken soup remains a familiar, familial elixir that hearkens back to when your mom simmered a pot for you on a cold, damp day.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

L invades her home, adulterates it with his grimace, and then turns his canvas in another direction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2021

Schamus cuts or adulterates everything in the novel that’s an audacity of form or a leap of vision.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2016

This triangulating trend developed overseas: For the European market, Coca-Cola adulterates its Fanta with acesulfame-K and aspartame, and slips stevia into its cans of Sprite.

From Slate ● May 13, 2013

Gold adulterates one thing only,—the human heart.—Marguerite de Valois.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch

Promoting slum clearance and clean water while preventing adulterated food addressed popular grievances while offering competent, uncontroversial government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Zhu’s partner, Wang, is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and distribution of adulterated and misbranded medical devices in connection with the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

"The big problem we face is adulterated products -- some people add sugar," she said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

These levels were at least 1,500 times lower than in the adulterated cinnamon.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2024

If the car hadn’t been adulterated for the mysterious and missing goats, it would hold thirty-two horses.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said Tuesday the plan to take Barcelona's La Liga match against Villarreal to Miami is "adulterating" the competition.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025

So for example, not adulterating: I didn't write with any actors in mind.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2024

The buying spree followed the melamine crisis when Chinese producers had been adulterating milk, baby formula and other foods with melamine, a chemical that is toxic in large quantities, to increase their apparent protein content.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2020

For example, a decade after Chinese milk producers were revealed to be adulterating infant formula, Chinese parents still shun the country’s dairy industry and distrust of food producers remains almost universal.

From The Verge ● Jul. 10, 2019

You can't take the essentials of a society and make a whole society out of them without adulterating them.

From The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton