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
  • In 2023, President Joe Biden eliminated an in-person prescription requirement for mifepristone, permitting distribution of the drug via telehealth and the mail.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
  • That sense of self, purpose, and advocacy has served her well through the journey to diagnosis and the one that followed — in which Crews combined natural protocols with Western prescription medications, all the way up until the recent focused ultrasound procedure.
    Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • But its primary association in the public consciousness since the nineteen-eighties is with the criminal underworld, particularly the drug cartels.
    Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The new shelter will allow residents to bring pets, which most shelters prohibit, offer a drug and alcohol treatment program and mental health services and assign those admitted a caseworker who will help connect them with professional development programs.
    Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The hijacking of humanitarian aid convoys by Hamas and armed gangs prevented the civilian population from receiving food and medicines.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 10 May 2026
  • Today the United States leads the world in biopharmaceutical innovation, with American companies driving 55% of global R&D and producing more new medicines than any other country.
    Joaquin Duato, Fortune, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • TrumpRx, a new government website, provides links to direct-to-consumer prescription drug discounts for patients not using their health insurance.
    Jackie Fortiér, Miami Herald, 8 May 2026
  • This includes dental, prescription drug expenses and health care premiums.
    Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • So much so that as Shaker communities dwindled through the nineteenth century, others wanted the cachet of their name in the patent medicine world.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Anyway, just being back on the court under game conditions had to have been a tonic.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The Italian wants to act like an older brother or father figure to the squad to try to guide them away from danger and these three points are the perfect tonic for their fragile confidence.
    Jay Harris, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Belarusian human rights group Viasna said he repeatedly was denied essential medications and refused contact with his wife and children.
    Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, many factors, such as lack of sleep, stress, adverse life events, mental health and medications can lead to food noise.
    Alora Bopray, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Anderson found the origins of present fads in the fervent nostrums of the past.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Because of the false but persistent and powerfully seductive nostrum that reducing the value of a country’s currency will stimulate its economy by making its exports cheaper and its imports more expensive.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

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“Botanical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/botanical. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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