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A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English.  1996.

3. Word Choice: New Uses, Common Confusion, and Constraints

§ 31. antidote


Do you take an antidote to, for, or against something? In fact you can use any of these prepositions. Thus you can go to the movies as an antidote to boredom, be injected with an antidote for snakebite, or buy gold as an antidote against inflation.    1


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