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synthetic phonics

British

noun

(functioning as singular) a method of teaching people to read by training them to pronounce sounds associated with particular letters in isolation and then blend them together Compare phonics

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Gov. Gavin Newsom votoes bill to phase out a range of popular consumer products, including nonstick pots and pans, that contain synthetic chemicals with links to cancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

"For the last 50 years, American children have increasingly been living in a toxic soup of synthetic chemicals," FDA commissioner Marty Makary said at a press conference in April.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2025

“Every day, children are exposed to synthetic chemicals in food that serve no purpose and threaten their health,” Kennedy Jr. said in a statement.

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2025

Understandably, incidents like Love Canal and the publicity they generated underscored and amplified the public’s fear of synthetic chemicals as potentially, and perhaps even inherently, harmful to human health.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2024

All this has come about because of the sudden rise and prodigious growth of an industry for the production of man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal properties.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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