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  • My arms shook on their own, and the green spiky leaves and toxic red berries of hollies growing alongside the road started to look appetizing.  (source)
  • If you don't count the ruins of District 13 that still smolder from the toxic bombs.†  (source)
  • They thought it was toxic, especially at times like this.†  (source)
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  • She showed us which plants were edible and which were toxic.†  (source)
    toxic = poisonous or harmful
  • There's a toxics mask hanging on the back of your seat," he says.†  (source)
  • I had no hair to wash, because the shower also dispensed a nontoxic hair-removing solution that I rubbed all over my face and body.†  (source)
    nontoxic = not poisonous or harmful
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nontoxic means not and reverses the meaning of toxic. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • The two boys, in particular, smell toxically of it.†  (source)
  • Then he finds out that the land came with a bunker full of toxic chemicals seeping into the ground.†  (source)
    toxic = poisonous or harmful
  • "The warehouse area is not as dirty as the first place we went," Ng says reassuringly, "so the fact that you can't use the toxics mask won't be so bad.†  (source)
  • The agent of his demise was wild potato, H. alpinum, the species plainly identified as nontoxic inTanaina Plantlore.†  (source)
    nontoxic = not poisonous or harmful
  • Constant browsers would be constantly sick if they were eating a toxic plant.†  (source)
    toxic = poisonous or harmful
  • I know she's waiting for me to ask what the best part is, and I am curious, but I ignore her and say, "I think permanent marker is toxic for your nails," to which she shakes her head at me like I'm a lost cause.†  (source)
  • For example, disseminating poison in reservoirs, leaking toxic waste from chemical plants ...have you done any of those?†  (source)
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