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purify

[pyoor-uh-fahy] / ˈpjʊər əˌfaɪ /


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Studies after that conflict concluded the damage hampered efforts to purify water and contributed to infant mortality.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 4, 2026

The punishments were made after a "systematic review" and were needed "to enforce industry discipline, purify the football environment, and maintain fair competition", the CFA wrote on its official social media account Thursday.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

Board of Water and Power Commissioners voted to purify 45 million gallons, enough water for 500,000 people.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2025

The team at Verley, a French startup, will then purify the protein, including extracting the lactose.

From BBC Oct. 6, 2025

“Okay,” Buzzard said “Go back and tell them I’ll purify the town.”

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

This patent-pending technology purifies the isotope by removing it from the bismuth target and then loads it onto a shipping column for incorporation into targeted alpha therapy drugs.

From Science Daily Nov. 11, 2025

A key supply item is a replacement pump for the system on the ISS that purifies urine back to drinking water.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2024

The system purifies wastewater using a three-step advanced treatment process, and the water then percolates and is injected into the groundwater basin, where it becomes part of the water supply.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2023

The company takes in shipments of refrigerators and tanks from around the country and beyond, drains them, then purifies and reclaims the chemicals, shipping out recycled product.

From Seattle Times Oct. 13, 2023

It purifies me, leaving me scoured both inside and out.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Hengli eventually expanded into other textiles, including polyester, which required petroleum-based raw materials such as purified terephthalic acid that China imported from abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

While I claim no clairvoyant skills, given the ever-diminishing quality of the air we breathe, purified air could definitely become a commodity someday.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

The Metropolitan Water District already is planning a large new facility in Carson to transform wastewater into purified drinking water.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2026

To better understand how this system works, researchers recreated it outside living cells using purified components.

From Science Daily Apr. 20, 2026

Wilkins had obtained some highly purified DNA from a Swiss lab and stretched it into thin, uniform fibers.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In purifying and perfecting their homes’ water, he says, homeowners of the future will demineralize and remineralize what comes out of the tap, and then pump it full of oxygen.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Sartre argued that for the antisemite, “there is no question of building a new society, but only of purifying the one that exists.”

From Salon Dec. 17, 2025

The companies purifying water look like better bets than the high-tech customers who use it.

From MarketWatch Dec. 9, 2025

To perform the analysis, the researchers used acetonitrile to extract PAHs before purifying the samples with several combinations of sorbents.

From Science Daily Dec. 1, 2025

I add what I remember to be the right number of drops of iodine for purifying it.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins




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