toxicant

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Recent Examples of toxicant One concern is that toxicants in the sharks’ livers can hinder production of vitellogenin, which becomes the yolk needed for egg cells. Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 19 July 2024 Since toxicants can be found in both healthy and unhealthy foods, this research suggests that some foods can contain a mix of components that are both beneficial and harmful for sleep. Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024 The incidence of obesity, kidney disease, and prostate disease increased in each subsequent generation after the first toxicant exposure. Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024 Interestingly, our group has recently shown that toxicants in food or food packaging, like pesticides, mercury and phthalates – chemicals used to manufacture plastics – can affect sleep. Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for toxicant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toxicant
Noun
  • The species was on the endangered list for nearly four decades – from 1970 to 2009 – because of exposure to the pesticide DDT, and they’re still protected.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • State lawmakers in Georgia and North Dakota have passed bills that would protect pesticide manufacturers from the same kind of legal liability that held Bayer responsible for Barnes’ cancer.
    John Klar, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There are several types of pre-emergent herbicides available.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Unlike farms where fields stacked next to each other can become contaminated from non-organic herbicides, the Anderson Ranch property can remain neutral ground.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The chief causes of the decline include habitat destruction, drier and hotter climate because of climate change and insecticide use.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Control Asian psyllids; apply an insecticide labeled for citrus at each flush of growth.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Subsequent research found that the fungicide Azoxystrobin gave good results in killing the fungus, not just suppressing it.
    Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Then install the new sod and apply a turf fungicide.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the cause of Bell’s Palsy is unknown but it can be triggered by high blood pressure, an infection, diabetes or toxins in one’s system.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Vultures also have extremely strong stomach acid, don’t get food poisoning and are able to consume and neutralize anthrax, botulism and other bacteria and toxins in carcasses that would kill other animals, removing deadly threats from the environment.
    Gerald Imray, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • So after Ware was schooled, all too often caught out of position against the outside-inside game that resulted in a toxic case of pick your poison for the affable big man, the next chore is going back to school.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2025
  • In a review of six cases of intentional pong pong seed ingestion reported to U.S. poison control centers, all were treated at a hospital, but only three survived.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The toxics killed fish and wildlife, closed beaches, and endangered environmentally sensitive areas.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2025
  • In Colorado, the process to choose the five priority air toxics included consulting with multiple stakeholders.
    Jenni Shearston, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025

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“Toxicant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toxicant. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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