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Recent Examples of venom Despite being the most abundant, their venom is not very potent, the wildlife agency said. Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Sep. 2025 Victims of a snake bite are advised not to try to remove the venom themselves or to tie off the bite area. Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025 Wolf spider bites are not poisonous and won't cause sores or body-wide symptoms from its venom. Carrie Madormo, Health, 6 Sep. 2025 But developing the venom does not prevent China from also developing the antidote; counter UAS capabilities. Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for venom
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Noun
  • Historically, gossip is equal parts social glue and poison.
    Oriel FeldmanHall, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In this lead-free America, children grow up with their minds and bodies not damaged by this poison.
    Tom Frieden, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • More than avoiding malice, we are called to take responsibility for the impact of our words.
    Andrew Weinstein, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Understand that controlling behaviors may stem from fear and insecurity rather than malice.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Environmental advocates say the new regulation of air toxics, which was required under a 2022 bill called Public Protections From Toxic Air Contaminants, will make the state’s air cleaner and its people healthier.
    Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In 2023, 20 steel mills and coke plants nationwide emitted nearly 2.4 million pounds of air toxics, 289,722 tons of criteria air pollutants and 43.3 million metric tons of greenhouse gases, according to the study.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Raised under Augusta’s religious terror and hatred for women, Ed tries to hide his penchant for ladies’ underwear and masturbation to no avail.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Not as a land of fear, not as a divisiveness, not of government censorship, not of hatred.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, disease and human activity, such as pollution, have severely degraded Florida's reefs, according to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In the series, Marie, an ambitious young woman of minor nobility, learns that her lung disease is terminal.
    Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This common strain releases a toxin that can damage blood vessels in the intestines and kidneys, which can cause serious complications like kidney damage.
    Brandi Jones, Health, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Their findings, published in the journal Communications Biology, point to chronic exposure to toxins produced by microorgansims known as cynobacteria—which are frequently found in freshwater, estuarine and marine waters—as a possible trigger.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Venom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venom. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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