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impure

[im-pyoor] / ɪmˈpjʊər /


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Artificial and impure, and achieved by doing something only slightly resembling basketball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

Much of this material cannot currently be reused in critical automotive components because contamination makes it too impure.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

Two major developments in the mid-1800s showed why impure water is dangerous.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2025

Elsa Laurenzi, who has written about Rome’s Jewish catacombs, notes that Jews did not come to catacombs to pray, considering burial grounds impure.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

You are impure, the three voices whispered together.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older


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