antiseptic

Example Sentences

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Amid the rebuke, brands have recoiled back within the antiseptic neutrality where they’re most comfortable: irrelevant celebrity cameos, cheap millennial nostalgia, unmoored wistfulness for simpler days.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2026

In an age before antiseptic, opening up the body almost always led to infection and death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

I reclined in the exam chair as Shalom parted my hair into sections and cleansed the area with an antiseptic liquid.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

But these once surefire hits have never been so limp and antiseptic.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

I sucked in air when she applied the antiseptic.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss