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Recent Examples of botanical
Ready to give the botanical active a whirl?
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for botanical
Noun
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The bill would also allow Iowans to buy ivermectin over the counter without a prescription and ban certain food dyes from school meals and drinks.—
Stephen Gruber-Miller,
Des Moines Register,
20 Feb. 2026
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There are some exceptions that require a prescription, such as using an OTC drug at a higher dose or treating a different medical condition than what is indicated on the label, Moore explains.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Every 15 days under the previous administration, more Americans died as a result of drugs than were killed on 9/11.—
Gabe Evans,
Denver Post,
25 Feb. 2026
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Excessive speed did not factor in the collision, and the rider was not believed to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time, said police.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Evening rituals in the communal Living Room rotate nightly, and could include old-timey games from Jinguashi in northern Taiwan, or a DIY herbal tea session inspired by the Chinese medicine shops lining Taipei’s Huaxi Street.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
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Beyond that, good medicine cannot be franchised.—
Arthur E. Palamara,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Feb. 2026
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The actor entered a California treatment center in 2011 for a prescription drug addiction, and in 2017, his struggle with depression led him to take a leave of absence from the television series The Last Ship, halting production for over a month.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Feb. 2026
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She is charged with practicing without a license, possession of a prescription drug with intent to sell, and misrepresenting a medical license.—
Abby Dodge,
CBS News,
20 Feb. 2026
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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
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Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, the soft drink was initially sold at pharmacies as a patent medicine.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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With 35 guests all following the same breakfast-beach-Bombay-and-tonic circuit, privacy on this private island is ironically hard to come by.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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For decades, politicians have sold tariffs as a tonic for the working class.—
Washington Post Editorial Board,
Twin Cities,
18 Feb. 2026
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Cabrera is accused of having a cockfighting training ring, a dead rooster in a cage, a rooster agitator (a device used to incite fighting), a gun, rooster vitamins, syringes and medication on his property.—
Sofia Saric,
Miami Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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Some insurance plans link coverage and out-of-pocket costs to the list price of medications.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
24 Feb. 2026
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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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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
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“Botanical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/botanical. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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