How to Use adulterant in a Sentence
adulterant
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Plenty of coffee drinkers enjoy medium or dark roasts, which tend to pair well with milk and other adulterants.
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Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2025
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Like many bath salts, NEP was often sold as Ecstasy or added to other drugs as an adulterant.
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Jonathan Corum,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Dangerous additives and adulterants should be prohibited.
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Chris Carroll,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2026
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Other adulterants also pose potential risks, especially when consumed unknowingly.
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Benjamin Adams,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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If supply were tightening, researchers would expect to see more impurities in the samples, because dealers would have a greater profit incentive to dilute their product with adulterants, Nabarun Dasgupta, the head of the lab, told me.
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Marie-Rose Sheinerman,
The Atlantic,
6 July 2026
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In a letter reviewed by CBS News, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said that agency funding cannot be used to purchase test strips used to check drugs for dangerous adulterants like fentanyl, xylazine and medetomidine.
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Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
30 Apr. 2026
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