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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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Thankfully, topical prescription acne treatments are generally safe postpartum, including antimicrobial medications.—
Alex Vance,
Parents,
29 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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In this Gothic fantasy debut, Leena Al-Sayer bargains her ability to see the dead in order to pay for the expensive medicine her brother Rami needs to live.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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Historically, kratom has been used in traditional medicines by brewing it in teas or chewing the leaves.—
Gary Kirkilas II,
Boston Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
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Pilatus then died of an alcohol and prescription drug overdose in 1998.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
29 Jan. 2026
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Health care costs include paying for health insurance, covering out-of-pocket expenses and prescription drug costs.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 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
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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
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The resulting fire-cider tonic can be mixed in liquid, just like regular apple cider vinegar.—
Kirsten Nunez,
Martha Stewart,
21 Jan. 2026
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Toward the end of my four-month-long manic episode, my medication was changed.—
Anna Peele,
Vanity Fair,
27 Jan. 2026
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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
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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 4 Feb. 2026.
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