sweetener
noun
something that sweetens, as sugar or a low-calorie synthetic product used instead of sugar.
sweeteners
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pluralof sweetener.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But this year, federal health officials recommended limiting intake of artificial sweeteners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
AMD extended sweeteners to win big customers, including offering them warrants, or future shares, in the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It identified a relationship between higher sweetener consumption and faster cognitive decline, but it could not establish that the sweeteners caused those changes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Large-scale commodity crops such as corn, wheat and soybeans — which go into myriad processed foods as well as into sweeteners and animal feed — behave a little differently, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
It’s given us cheap corn sweeteners and hundreds of extra calories a day.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
