contaminate

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"It has a knock-on effect on wildlife. There's still a fire risk. Pollution can contaminate water. It affects everything, not just it looking nice."

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

The waste can also clog the aquatic vegetation where the fish would feed and breed, and contaminate the water on which they depend.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

The very thought of being married to Tata Ndu seemed to contaminate Rachel’s frame of mind, so that every ten minutes or so she’d stop whatever she was doing and scream with disgust.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

The production of PFAS-coated pans also exposes factory workers to those chemicals, and the wastewater from factories like those are what contaminates waterways, landfills and, in some cases, farmland.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024

“The Simpsons Movie” finds the family on the run after Homer accidentally contaminates the town.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

Uncleanness of the self also contaminates the body.

From Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success by Frank C. (Frank Channing) Haddock

The team's early investigations found that local authorities had failed to warn residents about the contaminated water.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Soviet officials initially said the illnesses were the result of contaminated meat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

There was no place for the contaminated water that had already been stored to go.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Sewage spills are on the rise, contaminating waterways, flooding streets and threatening ecological and public health.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

In the 1920s, a modest mercury mine grew into a large open-pit operation, contaminating the watershed with the toxic metal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Prions can be shed through urine and feces for months or even years, contaminating vegetation and soil.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 16, 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

HeLa cells are still contaminating other cultures and causing an estimated several million dollars in damage each year.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot