How to Use Agent Orange in a Sentence

Agent Orange

noun
Definition of Agent Orangenext
  • What remained was the most intractable of all the legacies of the war: Agent Orange.
    — George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The surf punk band Agent Orange has been around since 1979, and founding guitarist/vocalist Mike Palm is still holding the act together.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The largest group served in the Vietnam era, where 2.8 million veterans were exposed to Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant linked to cancer.
    — Popular Science, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The herbicide 2,4-D was developed as a biochemical weapon that would later be used in Agent Orange.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • There are still literally Vietnam veterans who are appealing to the government for help for their exposure to Agent Orange.
    — ABC News, 31 July 2022
  • The shift in his health was eventually diagnosed as multiple sclerosis caused by his exposure to Agent Orange, which was used as a chemical weapon in Vietnam.
    — Brooke Mazurek, Variety, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Bailey and Ford eventually invested $17 million in projects aimed at alleviating the fallout from Agent Orange and raised $30 million more from other sources.
    — Steven V. Roberts, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Veterans were exposed to airborne environmental hazards in the area including Agent Orange, burn pit smoke, sandstorms and fumes from aircraft exhaust.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The dioxin from the facility originated as an unwanted byproduct in the production of Agent Orange and other herbicides.
    — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Norris' feet were ruined by Agent Orange in Vietnam, resulting in partial amputation.
    — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The city said the experiments exposed inmates to pharmaceuticals, viruses, fungus, asbestos and dioxin, a component of Agent Orange.
    — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder and a wide range of medical conditions linked to the use of toxic herbicides (known popularly as Agent Orange) are two significant issues that soon came to the forefront after years of neglect.
    — Jeff Banowetz, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • Door-to-door companies have begun to look abroad, following the path of other American innovations—Spam, Agent Orange, subprime mortgages—that ran into resistance at home but flourished overseas.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The two senators said the bill would also affect veterans who served in Vietnam, expanding the number of illnesses presumed to be related to Agent Orange exposure to include hypertension.
    — Kevin Freking, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
  • The pictures also recall how the Vietnamese jungle was itself treated as an enemy combatant during the war, and the various herbicides—Agent Orange the most infamous among them—used to cull a seemingly hostile environment.
    — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • American planes roaring overhead, releasing bombs, rockets and defoliants like Agent Orange, became part of their everyday existence.
    — Saqib Rahim, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The bill extended eligibility for VA benefits to about 6.2 million veterans who were exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, radiation and other toxic substances during their service, according to the agency.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Environmental regulators discovered that dioxin -- which originated as an unwanted byproduct in the production of Agent Orange and other herbicides -- seeped into local waterways.
    — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2023

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