purify
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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
Researchers at the University of Iowa have identified a new way to "purify" photons, a development that could improve both the performance and security of light based quantum technologies.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
Board of Water and Power Commissioners voted to purify 45 million gallons, enough water for 500,000 people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
I make a meal out of the smaller, bonier fish that inhabit the stream down here, fill every water container and purify it, and clean my weapons.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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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
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
Hidden under a newly paved parking lot next to a county courthouse, the wastewater treatment plant filters and purifies sewage and runoff simultaneously to produce water that exceeds state and federal drinking water regulations.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
It purifies me, leaving me scoured both inside and out.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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While I claim no clairvoyant skills, given the ever-diminishing quality of the air we breathe, purified air could definitely become a commodity someday.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
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
Once heated, the system releases purified lithium and water while regenerating the solvent so it can be reused repeatedly.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 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
My very shoes and stockings were purified and rendered presentable.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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The Welsh-born, 38-year-old engineer has logged hundreds of laps on Germany’s fabled Nürburgring Nordschleife purifying Bentley’s quintessences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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
To perform the analysis, the researchers used acetonitrile to extract PAHs before purifying the samples with several combinations of sorbents.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 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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