impure

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Artificial and impure, and achieved by doing something only slightly resembling basketball.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Two major developments in the mid-1800s showed why impure water is dangerous.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025

Naidu, who was sworn in as the state’s chief minister in June, alleged that the impure laddus were distributed to devotees during Reddy’s term.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

They found that as impure water freezes, it expels contaminants that drain along channels and ice-grain boundaries toward the ice base, where it forms a liquid layer that gives ice extra slipperiness.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

But Alcmaeon’s zest for the impure was not shared by most of his Pythagorean colleagues in later times. an imperfect reflection.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan