adulteration
noun
Examples of adulteration in a Sentence
Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
Developed to help trace patterns in adulteration, the database includes more than a thousand cases from 1980 to 2010 and records exactly what the foods were mixed with and how the adulteration was detected, along with links to the press reports and scientific papers on each case.
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2012
One of the most infamous cases of recent adulteration, in China in 2008, involved dairy products mixed with melamine .
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2012
Anesthesiologist Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr., 59, faces federal charges of tampering with a consumer product causing death and intentional drug adulteration.
—Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
Did that count as adulteration or not?
—Benjamin R. Cohen, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
McCarthy’s win will be a Pyrrhic victory, comparatively; any Republican victory is, at the moment, a loss for the nation and an adulteration of the integrity of the congressional body.
—Rich Logis, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2023
Most of the adulteration doesn't seem immediately dangerous, merely fraudulent.
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2012
Ortiz was arrested on Sept. 14 and faces federal charges of tampering with a consumer product causing death and intentional drug adulteration.
—Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
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Word History
borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French adulteracion, borrowed from Latin adulterātiōn-, adulterātiō, from adulterāre "to adulterate entry 1" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of action nouns
1503, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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