nerve agent
noun
: a toxic, usually odorless organophosphate (such as sarin, tabun, or VX) that is used as a chemical weapon in gaseous or liquid form, disrupts the transmission of nerve impulses, and may cause breathing difficulties, coughing, vomiting, muscle weakness or paralysis, convulsions, coma, and death : nerve gas
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Carry-On, about a young Transportation Security Administration officer who is blackmailed into allowing a nerve agent on board a Christmas Eve flight, had 97 million views.
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Megan Poinski, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
In 2021, Navalny returned to Russia from Germany, where he had been treated after being poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent.
—Anna Cooban, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
The film was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (The Commuter) and centers around TSA agent Ethan Kopek (Egerton) who finds himself in a tight situation when the mysterious Traveler (Bateman) blackmails him into letting a piece of carry-on luggage with a dangerous nerve agent through security.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Over the course of its 40 year-long chemical weapons program, Syria mastered the production of deadly nerve agents and developed an arsenal of chemical munitions.
—Gregory D. Koblentz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2024
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Megan Poinski, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
In 2021, Navalny returned to Russia from Germany, where he had been treated after being poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent.
—Anna Cooban, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
The film was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (The Commuter) and centers around TSA agent Ethan Kopek (Egerton) who finds himself in a tight situation when the mysterious Traveler (Bateman) blackmails him into letting a piece of carry-on luggage with a dangerous nerve agent through security.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Over the course of its 40 year-long chemical weapons program, Syria mastered the production of deadly nerve agents and developed an arsenal of chemical munitions.
—Gregory D. Koblentz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Nerve agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nerve%20agent. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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