How to Use antidote in a Sentence

antidote

noun
  • There is no antidote to this poison.
  • For him, racing motorcycles is a great antidote to boredom.
  • Your human agency is the antidote, the trigger to set off a positive change in your life.
    Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The antidote in this case is known as quantum error correction.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The antidote is a financial plan based on specific goals and values.
    cleveland, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Maybe the restaurants are an antidote to the cheeriness of corporate chains.
    New York Times, 18 Oct. 2021
  • In the event of an overdose, staff can administer the antidote naloxone.
    Julie Wernau, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
  • An antidote to this problem is to bake critical thinking into your meetings.
    Lital Marom, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The old man spent most of the episode trying to obtain a life-saving antidote from Pavlovich (to counteract last week’s deadly poisoning).
    Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The only antidote to this 'othering', and to injustice of every kind, is a more radical empathy.
    Keith Magee, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • There is a powerful antidote to this scourge of religious extremism: church-state separation.
    Rachel Laser, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The exhibition, compact but potent, is a sober antidote to the quasi-pagan revelry outside the museum doors.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Ironically, the reduction or elimination of tenure, which is supposed to be an antidote to this politicization, does the same thing.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Ah, but the Vikings would be awfully foolish to assume the game Sunday will automatically serve as the antidote to their rough start.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The opioid overdose antidote naloxone is available free statewide, and the overdose data program encourages Nevadans to learn about the life-saving resource.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
  • For many, smaller and focused may be the antidote to many years of being too big, too unfocused and, ultimately, decidedly unremarkable.
    Steve Dennis, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Baker’s decision to play Sirí instead of McCormick, who also bats right-handed, turned into the perfect antidote.
    John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2021
  • And wild food is the antidote: a wake-up call for the senses.
    Gabriel Popkin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • As rates rise, the antidote to volatile stocks could now be bonds.
    USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Psychedelics are supposed to be the antidote to all that.
    Kelsey Osgood, Wired, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The Hamptons, for them, is the antidote to a city that never sleeps.
    Beth Landman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2024
  • It’s the antidote, the balm, to the daily grind to be seen, heard, and respected.
    Rita Omokha, Glamour, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The mitzvot — the active pursuit of the good and the holy — creates the antidote to that dark piece within us.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Dosirak is a table for one, the antidote to a world full of shared plates.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • That is the antidote, which works for children or pets.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
  • For Haynes, the act of painting the nude is, more than anything else, an antidote to shame.
    Julia Halperin, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In this episode, the survivors must figure out the antidote or Travis will die, too.
    Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Aug. 2023
  • These appliances are the antidote to out of sight, out of mind.
    Deanne Revel, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But the state does have a program to mail the antidote to anyone who requests it.
    Geoff Mulvihill and Sharon Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Spring produce skews light and delicate and green, a real antidote to the gray days of the first few months of the year.
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022

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