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Recent Examples of undrinkable
Finally, the mint julep is a vile almost undrinkable beverage.
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John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025
The latest New York news Image Road salt and the city’s drinking water: A new environmental report finds that rising salt levels in New York City’s water supply could make some of it undrinkable by the beginning of the next century.
—James Barron, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Therefore, this water becomes undrinkable without processing, increasing the need for desalinization and affecting the water's taste.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
But when devastating wildfires ravaged the West Coast in September 2020, gallons of wine were left undrinkable.
—Eric Noll, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025
The latest New York news Image Road salt and the city’s drinking water: A new environmental report finds that rising salt levels in New York City’s water supply could make some of it undrinkable by the beginning of the next century.
—James Barron, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Therefore, this water becomes undrinkable without processing, increasing the need for desalinization and affecting the water's taste.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
But when devastating wildfires ravaged the West Coast in September 2020, gallons of wine were left undrinkable.
—Eric Noll, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undrinkable
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McKinney’s company was recently suspended from the city's demolition program for allegedly filling sites with contaminated dirt obtained from the redevelopment of Northland Mall.—
Violet Ikonomova,
Freep.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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The new advisory follows recent testing in eastern Kennebec and western Waldo counties, which showed that deer and turkey sampled from areas near contaminated soil had PFAS concentrations in muscle tissue high enough to warrant a public health warning.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Instead of this stuff that's raised overseas that's done in ways that doesn't have any checks, that it's got polluted water, it's being fed really nasty stuff, full of antibiotics, full of chemicals.—
Dan Morrison,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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Instead of adding external chemicals or excavating polluted layers, the soil itself becomes a dynamic system capable of regenerating its quality over time.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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No politician will want to be associated with a team that is now toxic.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Nov. 2025
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King invented The Network at a time when people were still processing the toxic relationship between mass entertainment and mind control, and while the thrust of his story may not have aged a day, the medium is the message, and that medium has changed.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
11 Nov. 2025
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For all their sophistication—transforming a poisonous root and its leaves into a whole range of delicacies is no mean feat—for years such dishes were seen by the city’s elite as the food of poverty.—
Michael Snyder,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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By appointing a man who was deeply unpopular with fans by the end of his reign so recently, though, Wolves would have been condemning him and his players to working in a poisonous environment from day one.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Undrinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undrinkable. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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