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Six example sentences with adulterate, each labelled with its topic.
Dishonest sellers adulterate olive oil with cheap soybean blends, and only a laboratory test reveals what is in the bottle.
Cooking
Medieval bakers who adulterated their flour with chalk or sawdust faced the pillory once the guild inspectors caught them.
History
A single drop of glycerol will adulterate the sample enough to shift every reading on the spectrometer.
Science
A supplier that adulterates its honey with corn syrup risks losing every retail contract once a lab test comes back.
Business
The 1906 statute made it a federal offense to adulterate food shipped across state lines, and inspectors began seizing barrels.
Law
Rulers short of silver would adulterate the coinage with copper, and prices rose as merchants learned to weigh every coin.
Economics
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