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verb

past tense of poison
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as in turned
to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge malicious rumors had poisoned many church members against the new pastor

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Recent Examples of poisoned
Verb
Drugs, success, and conflicting personalities had poisoned members’ relationships. Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024 In times of crisis, these individuals may be offered or pushed into leadership positions that are precarious, at best, and poisoned, at worst. Melissa A. Wheeler, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024 The iconic American bird was almost wiped out in the 1960s due to the pesticide DDT, which poisoned the eagles and made their eggs weak and flimsy. Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024 Poisoned Data, Poisoned Outcomes One of the biggest dangers in the AI supply chain is poisoned training data. Steve Wilson, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024 Haunting pictures of rows of small bodies covered in white sheets—some of the 400 children who were poisoned in the attack—became emblematic of the Assad regime’s cruelty. Gregory D. Koblentz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2024 Decades of industrial dumping had polluted the water and poisoned its plants and animals. Eliza Principe Garcia, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2024 His recipe was so popular that our friends started making it too, until one accidentally poisoned us and the rest of her dinner party by using a can that had gone bad. Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024 Australia has also updated its travel advisory for Fiji to warn about the risk of alcoholic drinks’ being spiked or poisoned with methanol. Seyed Ismail Nafeesa, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poisoned
Adjective
  • The bacteria survived, protected and fed by the fungus — and the fungus scored a poisonous partner.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • New Zealand stone flies are evolving away from mimicking poisonous insects because deforestation has left them nothing to mimic.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Amazon objected to the 2022 warehouse election results, alleging the Amazon Labor Union and the federal labor board had tainted the vote.
    CBS News, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Some see all Russians and their cultural heritage as irredeemably tainted by imperial thinking, a view heavily influenced by post-colonial studies in American academia.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • When the tile degraded, the gaps were filled in with livestock bones.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
  • That’s good news, considering phosphorous pollution has degraded water quality in the Everglades for decades and remains a challenge.
    Rebecca Blackwell, Sun Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Behavior and reproduction Most frogs are nocturnal, but not poison frogs.
    National Geographic, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Some farmers even intentionally poison cranes to stop them from foraging in their crops.
    National Geographic, National Geographic, 10 Feb. 2020
Verb
  • The stunt resulted in the restaurant having to throw away pounds of sandwich fixings out of concern they were contaminated, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said in an affidavit.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Separately, norovirus outbreaks can also spring from food that was contaminated at the source and that’s often eaten raw, like shellfish harvested from virus-laden water or produce washed with it.
    Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • But now Miami would have to be convinced of bringing in the 31-year-old Beal, who, by picking up his $57 million player option for 2026-27, is still owed $110 million for two seasons after this one.
    Zach Harper, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Once and for all, you will be convinced that ranch and pickles are the perfect pairing.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • These small but hazardous items, along with other forms of plastic, can contain harmful chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which can have toxic effects on marine life.
    Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • It is known to be toxic in high doses, and low-level exposure may increase the risk of certain cancers.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • But others argue these budget controls are ensuring Connecticut won’t return to the 2010s, a decade marred by frequent annual deficits and some of the largest tax hikes in state history.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The couple welcomed two children, True, 6, and Tatum, 2, but their romance was marred by Thompson's multiple cheating scandals.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025

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