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Researchers at Drexel University hope this foundational acoustic phenomenon could be the key to the speedy removal of lead water lines that have been poisoning water supplies throughout the country for decades.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024

If that is true, then my grandfather and my father before me, and I myself, for many years past, have been poisoning the town like three destroying angels.

From An Enemy of the People by Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson)

Your father's enemies have evidently been at work, and have been poisoning the king's mind.

From Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

For some days on the upper waters of the river they have been poisoning the minds of the tribes.

From Roger Davis, Loyalist by Baird, Frank

And you have been poisoning it with Rag Jack oil, eh?

From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville