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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

There was something impure in the fact of my being.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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