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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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These figures are best used as a frame of reference, not a precise prescription.—
Allison Palmer,
Sacbee.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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The prescriptions initiative comes amid nationwide declines in childhood literacy rates and as fewer young people report reading daily for pleasure.—
Kayla Huynh,
jsonline.com,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The third site, in the 900 block of Reno Avenue in Modesto, was used by the drug trafficking organization to store and distribute illicit narcotics, which were being sold throughout Northern California, authorities said.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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Wardens were previously required to provide, as well as cover the cost of, hormonal drugs and medically unnecessary procedures to prisoners who sought to physically alter themselves to appear as the opposite sex.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Nobody has successfully transferred consciousness from one nervous system to another or shown that this is possible, says Alysson Muotri, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the University of California, San Diego, who is a pioneer in brain organoid research.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
8 Mar. 2026
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As medicine becomes more personalized, things like biomarkers—a broad subcategory of medical signs including glucose regulation, muscle retention indicators, and circadian rhythm metics—are contributing to a better understanding of long-term risk patterns and aging.—
Emilee Coblentz,
Outside,
8 Mar. 2026
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Johnson hopes her son could be helped by a prescription drug called leucovorin, which may help some children who have abnormally low levels of the vitamin folate in their brains.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
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A lot of Black voters care about protecting Medicare, bringing down prescription drug prices.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Mar. 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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Forrest Dein, the co-founder and CMO of Willie’s Remedy, a THC tonic promoted by Willie Nelson, is registering seismic growth since launching the drink less than a year ago.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2026
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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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In 2022, former President Joe Biden’s BOP reinstated the Transgender Offender Manual, which was originally released by the Obama-Biden administration in January 2017, but that version had only made hormone medication accessible at the time.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Mar. 2026
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While mushrooms can be nutritional powerhouses, eating the wrong species of mushroom can kill you, while others can cause allergic reactions, digestive issues and negatively interact with certain medications, especially blood thinners.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 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 10 Mar. 2026.
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