cleanse
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This momentary cleanse won’t save them, but it will keep them going.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
But he backs attempts to declare the Indemnity Act unconstitutional "to cleanse us of that past".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
I tried to do a juice cleanse in college and by Day 2 I wanted to die.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
“No power, no justification, and no time can cleanse this great tragedy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
“We’ll give thee a good bath and cleanse thy humor. Who knows? Mayhap we can teach thee to swim!”
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Devon Kelley, a content creator who has posted to #ShowerTok, double cleanses her body once or twice a week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It was just out of earshot from Oz nodding along to musings on how “sleep is when the brain cleanses itself.”
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
To try and find a solution, he started researching his symptoms online, where he came across a forum of people reporting their experiences with parasite cleanses.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
I explore “Why not both?’” since water cleanses us — not just physically but spiritually, emotionally and mentally.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
The truth swells larger than the tub walls can hold, cleanses me more than the water and bubbles ever can.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
Maybe it’s because he was lucky enough to have his footprint cleansed a bit.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Thus cleansed of expectation, you move through a series of smaller, even intimate spaces in which you are given free access to a literal universe of biological data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
She feels cleansed by the sea and the fog that shrouds the world’s ugliness, and believes there is happiness to be salvaged from the wreckage of her past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
“That cleansed the space of a lot of weaker companies,” he says.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
“Dirty” cars, which hadn’t yet been cleansed of graffiti, were never to be mixed with “clean” cars.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
The prayer service being held at the Tsadqane Debre Mitmaq St Mary Monastery included a holy water cleansing ritual that is popular among Orthodox Christians seeking spiritual healing for chronic illnesses.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The new site will be the company’s global center for skin care and cleansing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Earlier work by the team showed that corona discharges could be a significant source of these atmospheric cleansing agents within forest canopies.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
Blankfein added that the long period without a financial crisis cleansing process meant ”you accumulate tinder on the floor of the forest and eventually a spark will come.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
No more warm coat, no rough, comforting, cleansing tongue.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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