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a substance that is used to kill harmful bacteria and to cure infections
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Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2025
Meat Lovers: Your Local Butcher—All Across The Country Nashville’s Porter Road is an artisan brick and mortar butcher that works with local family farmers in neighboring states to obtain high-quality, ethically pasture raised poultry, beef and pork, all without hormones or antibiotics.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
In his Fox News interview, Kennedy endorsed an unconventional treatment regimen for measles including a steroid, an antibiotic and cod liver oil, which is rich in vitamin A.
—Neha Mukherjee, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Runge said an antibiotic may help treat a bacterial infection acquired after contracting measles, such as pneumonia, and a steroid might be helpful in treating airway disease in asthmatic patients with measles, but neither are cures for the viral infection.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2025
Meat Lovers: Your Local Butcher—All Across The Country Nashville’s Porter Road is an artisan brick and mortar butcher that works with local family farmers in neighboring states to obtain high-quality, ethically pasture raised poultry, beef and pork, all without hormones or antibiotics.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
He was treated for a respiratory infection and released after antibiotic treatment.
—Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
In his Fox News interview, Kennedy endorsed an unconventional treatment regimen for measles including a steroid, an antibiotic and cod liver oil, which is rich in vitamin A.
—Neha Mukherjee, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antibiotic
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With an intensive course of anti-tuberculosis antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory drug, the man's symptoms gradually began to ease.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
9 May 2025
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Married since 2013, the couple started trying for their fourth baby with the help of fertility drugs.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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Developed in partnership with British company Indestructible Paint, the coating consists of that firm's conventional clear gloss resin along with a 2% concentration of a broad-spectrum biocidal agent known as chlorhexidine digluconate (CHX).—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
23 Apr. 2025
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Schuerger’s team is also expanding their tests to see how organisms respond to additional biocidal factors.—
National Geographic,
National Geographic,
25 Sep. 2016
Adjective
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Scientists have also found traces of plants with antibacterial and pain-relieving properties in Neanderthals’ dental plaque.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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It is also known for its antibacterial and exfoliating properties.—
Allison Herries,
Verywell Health,
16 Apr. 2025
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An 'awakening for the Republicans'? Will Cole, a functional medicine practitioner, has known Kennedy for almost a decade.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
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From the moment of her diagnosis, she was forced into a reckoning far deeper than medicine could reach.—
Carissa Talmage,
People.com,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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As such, Congress should include repeal of this unfair and economically destructive tax in the reconciliation bill that it is slated to consider this summer.—
James Carter,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2025
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Rates have jumped in the past five years because of increasingly severe weather and wildfires, which are growing more destructive because of the impact of climate change in the state.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
7 May 2025
Noun
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The small-molecule medications subject to the pill penalty are often more affordable, easier to distribute and more accessible to patients.—
Julio Fuentes,
Sun Sentinel,
11 May 2025
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Be sure to safely dispose of prescriptions and OTC medications using a local drug take-back program.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 May 2025
Adjective
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The Whitney has a fumigation guy who uses a process called ultraviolet germicidal irradiation.—
Jake Offenhartz,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Humans have known for over a hundred years that UV radiation can kill deadly germs, and hospitals have used germicidal 254-nm UVC to sterilize objects for decades.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
8 Mar. 2023
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Back to the twists, in the scene where Anna is on the truth serum and is blathering, what is the truth serum that is used and how did that idea come about?—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
5 May 2025
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The serum is formulated with hyaluronic acid and pro-xylene to transform the skin's surface and layers below.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
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“Antibiotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antibiotic. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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