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

In 2008, at least 81 people died from a poisoned blood thinner traced back to a Chinese supplier in what has been described as a “deliberate scheme to adulterate a lifesaving medication.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2021

When dry, it is wrinkled, and if soaked does not display the longitudinal frill of the Javan Amomum maximum, which it is sometimes used to adulterate.

From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley

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

Adult′erant, the person or substance that adulterates; Adulterā′tion, the act of adulterating: the state of being adulterated.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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

Jeff Pettis, the federation’s president, said that they were "continuing to fight for improvements to the testing" and that he wanted "the public to know that local honey is much less likely to be adulterated."

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 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

"It's totally adulterating the competition," Courtois told a news conference.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025

From interviews, they also understood the motive: Brighter roots led to more profit, and adulterating with a consistently bright paint agent could disguise poorer-quality roots.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2023

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

The definition of a "Pearly hue," as "obtained by softening or blending the warm colours without adulterating one with the other," is equally liable to objection as untrue.

From Colour as a Means of Art Being an Adaption of the Experience of Professors to the Practice of Amatures by Frank Howard