How to Use defoliant in a Sentence
defoliant
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It was used as a defoliant in Vietnam.
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Angus Chen,
STAT,
27 Mar. 2026
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This spring, doctors identified his cancer as one of those linked to exposure to Agent Orange, the defoliant used during the war.
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oregonlive,
21 Sep. 2021
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The Vietnam War brought the helicopter gunship, napalm, and chemical defoliants.
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David Oshinsky,
The New York Review of Books,
28 Jan. 2020
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An experienced logger and his young wife in Northern California suspect a defoliant being used to clear brush is poisoning their community.
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Washington Post,
18 Nov. 2021
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The wrangler on Hollywood film sets was exposed to the toxic chemical defoliant during his service in Vietnam in the early 1970s.
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John Rogers,
The Seattle Times,
30 Apr. 2017
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That represented an upgrade from a previous recommendation that there was inadequate or insufficient evidence to link the diseases to the toxic herbicides used as defoliants in Vietnam.
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Fox News,
26 Oct. 2019
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What's more, the firefighters were disproportionately likely to have a type of this disease that was also more common among veterans who were exposed to the cancer-causing chemical defoliant known as Agent Orange, the study authors noted.
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Karen Kaplan,
latimes.com,
26 Apr. 2018
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The most infamous of these facilities produced nearly a million gallons of Agent Orange, the toxic defoliant whose extensive use during the Vietnam War has caused generations of suffering.
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Wired,
23 Sep. 2019
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The haphazard method of incineration generated numerous pollutants, including carbon monoxide and dioxin—the same chemical compound found in Agent Orange, the dangerous defoliant during the Vietnam War.
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Perry Chiaramonte,
Fox News,
7 June 2018
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