How to Use toxicity in a Sentence

toxicity

noun
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  • Does the amount of the poison matter in terms of its toxicity?
    — Brad Reisfeld, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Pliny said ravens eat chameleons, but then ingest bay leaves to counter the lizards’ toxicity.
    — Adrienne Mayor, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • The staff also flagged a rise in blood pressure and pulse in the trials, and in cases of liver toxicity.
    — Sriparna Roy and Pratik Jain, USA TODAY, 5 June 2024
  • The ladies of The View got into a heated debate about workplace toxicity while... at work on live TV.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Still, for many young people, the dating pool seems to have reached new levels of toxicity.
    — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • Where Yik Yak oozes toxicity, BeReal feels like a safe haven, at least for the time being.
    — Wired, 26 July 2022
  • With Snyder and his toxicity out of the way, the Commanders could get a new stadium.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Her job is to teach her daughter how to not put up with toxicity, gaslighting and this type of nonsense from anyone.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • But as the pandemic progressed, the damage done by the virus broadened, and the toxicity of modern-day politics came to the fore.
    — Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • In August 2020, the FDA rejected the drug due to toxicity.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2024
  • But Cameron’s toxicity is never dampened, even in the end.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Be sure not to exceed this upper limit, as the risk of adverse effects, like toxicity, is much greater above this amount.
    — Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Hate, online hate and haters and trolls, and factions and all that has just gotten more galvanized in its toxicity.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 July 2023
  • This can increase penicillin concentrations in the blood as well as the risk of side effects and drug toxicity.
    — Jenny Sweigard, Verywell Health, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The rationale is that MegaSyn can avoid toxicity in molecules, and thus sift ‘good’ ones.
    — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • Perhaps this is just a brief moment of prelapsarian bliss, doomed to give way to run-of-the-mill internet toxicity.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Lockheed says the system is designed to scale to hundreds of megawatts in repeatable blocks with no acute toxicity or fire hazard.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2023
  • While their output of 3,432 pounds of acrylonitrile is small, the toxicity is more potent than many others, as determined by the EPA.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 6 July 2022
  • When dead animals and plants fell to the ocean floor, the toxicity protected their remains from scavengers, helping to preserve them.
    — Santiago Flórez, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Submitted by Lori Giles: My daughter died of fentanyl (mixed drug toxicity) on April 4 at age 26.
    — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Its fans are passionate — sometimes to the point of toxicity — and hardly unified.
    — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2022
  • This is important information that will help the vet determine the level of toxicity and know how to treat your dog.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
  • All of the drugs had passed initial animal testing, but some had later turned out to cause liver toxicity in humans.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Industry groups said that the agency had failed to wait for a peer review of toxicity assessments to be completed.
    — Kris Maher, WSJ, 15 June 2022
  • The result is an outrageous display of toxicity with a bubbly appeal that could very well inspire a Charli XCX song all its own.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 June 2024
  • Before adopting cassava in these roles, though, people had to figure out how to deal with its toxicity.
    — Stephen Wooding, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
  • In truth, the toxicity in the country’s information well has only gotten worse since 2020.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Too much vitamin D may raise your risk of toxicity and excess calcium in your blood.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The company said the severity of the health issues depend on the level of Vitamin A and the length of exposure, but can result in Vitamin A toxicity.
    — Joanne Rosa, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The untenable toxicity of this artless warfare has led some researchers to rethink the ancient script—and flip it: know yourself, know your enemy.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 July 2024

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