detergent
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He served 78 days for shoplifting soap detergent, and had initially been given a suspended 32-week sentence but had breached it.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
She hired her house manager to allow her room for joy and to be fully present with her 6-year-old daughter instead of worrying about whether they were running low on laundry detergent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
And even as algae consumes that phosphorus, it is being topped up in the water by agriculture, wastewater, un-maintained septic tanks, industry and every household in the catchment that puts phosphorus-containing detergent into the system.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
So when one of the company’s top research-and-development executives and its scientists took their latest concoction—a detergent “tile” called Tide evo—to its fabric-care sales and marketing team, there was plenty of skepticism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The scrubs who had not played removed their warmups that still smelled of detergent and their mothers’ hands.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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The facilities produce raw materials used to make pharmaceuticals, clothing, cosmetics, detergents, construction materials and military explosives in the UK and Europe.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The end-of-summer networking bonanza was organised by 20 business groups representing everything from cars to clean energy, digital to detergents.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
This includes whether contaminated clothing could transfer lead to other items in the wash and how detergents interact with the chemical.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2026
Petroleum is also used to make detergents that help toothpaste foam and synthetics that improve shelf life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
Water pollution experts throughout the United States are concerned by the fact that detergents are now a troublesome and practically universal contaminant of public water supplies.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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