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purify

[pyoor-uh-fahy] / ˈpjʊər əˌfaɪ /


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In such an environment, it is especially reckless to assume that war, no matter how justified, will somehow purify institutions rather than corrode them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

The punishments were made after a "systematic review" and were needed "to enforce industry discipline, purify the football environment, and maintain fair competition", the CFA wrote on its official social media account Thursday.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

The team at Verley, a French startup, will then purify the protein, including extracting the lactose.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025

The pool’s mechanical room looks like the boiler room of an ocean liner — with giant tanks that purify pool water and another system that stabilizes the temperature.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

While he had inherited problems in 367, he was determined to purify it of difficulties, procedural or spiritual, within a short period of time.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

This patent-pending technology purifies the isotope by removing it from the bismuth target and then loads it onto a shipping column for incorporation into targeted alpha therapy drugs.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025

A key supply item is a replacement pump for the system on the ISS that purifies urine back to drinking water.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024

A massive sewage recycling program purifies wastewater through microfiltration, reverse osmosis and ultraviolet irradiation, adding to drinking supply reservoirs.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

This process chemically separates the DNA from other components of cells within the sample, such as proteins, and purifies it.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 25, 2023

It purifies me, leaving me scoured both inside and out.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The Metropolitan Water District already is planning a large new facility in Carson to transform wastewater into purified drinking water.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

It did so, nominating thousands of ingredients, including, for example, purified water and asparagus.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

It takes purified silicon rocks, a good source of which is sand in North Carolina, and fashions them into the 12-inch wafers that will later be imprinted with trillions of transistors to become chips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

Some bottlers sell tap water purified through reverse‑osmosis filtration which removes the minerals and flavour, he said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

Those who desire to be purified cannot be refused and the black stain of his guilt had grown fainter and fainter through his years of lonely wandering and pain.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Separating and purifying the elements from mineral deposits often requires toxic chemicals, while radioactive substances are frequently present in the same geological formations.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

In purifying and perfecting their homes’ water, he says, homeowners of the future will demineralize and remineralize what comes out of the tap, and then pump it full of oxygen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Sartre argued that for the antisemite, “there is no question of building a new society, but only of purifying the one that exists.”

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025

The companies purifying water look like better bets than the high-tech customers who use it.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025

“Well, they say you can drink water from the streams without purifying it” “You’re kidding.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld


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