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
Surprisingly, they found that impure ice was much less sticky than ice made from pure water under certain conditions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
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
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
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