botanical

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Recent Examples of botanical Ready to give the botanical active a whirl? Kiana Murden, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2025 There are 40 scents from which to choose, plus dry botanical to add to your candle. Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Nov. 2025 This year’s edition is no different, with the inclusion of French fleur de sel sea salt as the extra botanical in the recipe. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2025 Continuing Jodie Mack’s (The Grand Bizarre, NYFF56) long-term project of animating alternative materials, Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love is an ecstatic and visceral reflection on temporality, both human and botanical, an amorous affirmation of death and life. Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for botanical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for botanical
Noun
  • Thankfully, topical prescription acne treatments are generally safe postpartum, including antimicrobial medications.
    Alex Vance, Parents, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Demetrius died of an accidental overdose after getting into a family member's prescription medications just days before his 3rd birthday in 1990.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Finally a trial of about a year, similar to a drug’s Phase 3 stage, is conducted to demonstrate safety and effectiveness at a larger scale.
    Ana Castelain, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Sandweg also said the Border Patrol has no business operating in a city like Minneapolis because their training is geared more toward encountering drug cartels and migrants along the border.
    Anna Schecter, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Naltrexone is available with a prescription from a licensed healthcare provider, such as a primary care doctor, addiction medicine specialist or psychiatrist.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • She's been vocal about the unique needs of helping the BIPOC population, which often lacked access to or trust in traditional medicine.
    Laurie Perez, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • At a press conference in late 2025, federal officials made some big claims about leucovorin, a prescription drug usually reserved for people on cancer chemotherapy.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 22 Jan. 2026
  • With dozens of lobbyists filling the room, a House panel Wednesday approved a proposal aimed at lowering prescription drug prices in Florida.
    News Service Of Florida, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • But the likeness ends there because, to be clear, Tyler did not use the occasion to tout patent medicines.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, the soft drink was initially sold at pharmacies as a patent medicine.
    Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hidden in a square of Bissinger’s Gin & Tonic bar is a liquid center resembling the botanicals in gin and tonic.
    Angela Hansberger, AJC.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The resulting fire-cider tonic can be mixed in liquid, just like regular apple cider vinegar.
    Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Toward the end of my four-month-long manic episode, my medication was changed.
    Anna Peele, Vanity Fair, 27 Jan. 2026
  • For many people dealing with these frustrating, often invisible symptoms, gabapentin has become a go-to medication, causing prescriptions of the drug to surge.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • But Wolff’s work and influence, alongside a simultaneous rise in the fields of psychology and psychosomatic medicine, helped to disperse those nostrums into the wider culture—and into the prevailing paradigm within which other headache scientists and clinicians toiled.
    Tom Zeller Jr. July 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
  • His personal integrity conflicts with liberal nostrums, resulting in Fish and Poinsettia’s bizarre repulsion-attraction rapport.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025

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“Botanical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/botanical. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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