How to Use fluoridated in a Sentence

fluoridated

adjective
  • The need that fluoridated water was meant to address, critics say, isn’t as urgent.
    — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2025
  • People who drink fluoridated community water long-term are just as smart as those who don't, a first-of-its-kind study found.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Like the vaccines, those that would prefer not to drink fluoridated water have other options.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Decades later, when fluoridated water is under attack, that’s a non-starter.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Other sources of fluoride include fluoridated toothpastes, and certain teas and foods.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Tea, coffee and certain brands of fluoridated water also contain the mineral.
    — Surina Venkat, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Tests of intelligence and brain function showed the same results whether or not people drank fluoridated water growing up, a highly anticipated, long-term study found.
    — Kaan Ozcan, NBC news, 13 Apr. 2026
  • That inconsistency is particularly striking in Florida, a state that has pushed to expand medical freedom for those who wish to avoid vaccines or fluoridated water, while constricting the rights of people in various stages of pregnancy.
    — CNN Money, 16 Mar. 2026
  • That inconsistency is particularly striking in Florida, a state that has pushed to expand medical freedom for those who wish to avoid vaccines or fluoridated water, while constricting the rights of people in various stages of pregnancy.
    — Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The raw-water trend was mainly pre-pandemic, especially among the health-conscious Silicon Valley tech community, but the fear of fluoridated water has persisted in alternative-health sectors.
    — Annie Levin, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The potential for fluoride toxicity does exist, but would require consuming an amount of fluoridated water that would kill a human via water intoxication before the amount of fluoride could become harmful or deadly, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Major public health groups, including the American Dental Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC, support the use of fluoridated water.
    — Kaan Ozcan, NBC news, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, April 13, the study is the first to test the impact of fluoridated water on cognition into late adulthood – long beyond childhood and adolescence, the usual targets of fluoride research.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026
  • About 110,000 residents receive fluoridated drinking water, according to the state’s environmental agency, while an additional 6,510 are served by water supplies with naturally occurring fluoride.
    — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2025
  • On May 21, he and pediatric dentist Mark Cannon of Northwestern University were called to testify in the Utah Legislature in support of a pilot project to provide Xlear’s gum to students and prisoners in the state as a replacement for fluoridated water, which the state banned in March.
    — Arthur Allen, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2025

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