venom
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“Just remember,” the president told her, “if you get the venom out quickly enough, you’ll be OK.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
How many people could die from the venom in a single taipan bite?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
"Ample evidence demonstrates that baby rattlers, like adults, can control their venom expulsion, the adults possess and deliver far more venom when biting, and the adults cause substantially more severe symptoms in snakebite victims."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
He has plenty of venom in his groundstrokes and his nimbleness around the court means he is able to spring forward to finish points with volleys at the net.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Oh, you were wonderingI said with every bit of venom my troupe-sharpened tongue could muster. “Well maybe you can wonder a while longer.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
For the past five years, The Liana Trust has been studying venoms from species beyond the big four to develop antidotes to them.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
And yet, despite the great ecological and economic importance of hymenopterans, very little is known about the evolutionary development of their venoms.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023
The useful proteins in these venoms act as anticoagulants, naturally preventing platelets from sticking together.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2021
The Amazon abounds in spiders — current estimates are about 3,000 species — and their venoms tend to be extraordinarily complex cocktails of proteins, dangerous peptides and other toxins.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
Insects produce a variety of venoms, attractants, repellants.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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