adulterants

noun

plural of adulterant
as in contaminants
something that is or that makes impure concerned about adulterants in the town's water supply coming from the discharge from the factory

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Recent Examples of adulterants The tablets, which are a blend of the stimulant with caffeine and other adulterants, are particularly common in South and Southeast Asia. — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 18 Aug. 2026 That creates an important exception for government agencies that test drugs and send out regular reports on what adulterants are saturating the drug supply in certain locations. — Scott Maucione, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026 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. — Marie-Rose Sheinerman, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026 Dangerous additives and adulterants should be prohibited. — Chris Carroll, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026 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. — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026 Plenty of coffee drinkers enjoy medium or dark roasts, which tend to pair well with milk and other adulterants. — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025 Other adulterants also pose potential risks, especially when consumed unknowingly. — Benjamin Adams, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adulterants
  1. contaminants
  2. pollutants
  3. contaminations
Noun
  • Some food dyes made from natural ingredients can contain contaminants and may pose their own health risks, such as diabetes.
    — Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • In Keyport, New Jersey, a community's residents gathered to learn more about an investigation into contaminants found at an industrial park and neighboring former landfill and whether the contaminants could be affecting their air and water.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of contaminants
Noun
  • Facilities would have to be on land zoned for heavy industrial use and could not be located near disadvantaged communities or populations sensitive to pollutants, such as hospitals, schools and nursing homes.
    — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Ancient rock art at Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, in Western Australia, has seen much larger damaged than previously anticipated due to industrial pollutants found in air emissions.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of pollutants
Noun
  • In one of the heaviest contaminations of TCE and PCE documented, thousands of soldiers and their families were exposed to the solvents at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987.
    — WUFT News, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026
  • And the Food and Drug Administration is also investigating contaminations that may be tied to a different outbreak.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 24 July 2026
Definition of contaminations

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