purity

It was the era of “Urban Cowboy” and purity was being policed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Once refined to improve its purity, the extracted gold is used to make jewellery for the Royal Mint's "886" brand, which refers to the date the institution was founded.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Centrifuges are needed to produce enriched uranium, which can be used to make reactor fuel for civilian use but also for nuclear weapons if enriched to around 90% purity or higher.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The promise of these premium waters is purity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Each one convinced of his own purity and outraged by the idiocy he saw in the other.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

But there are heroes, too, who remind us of our own potential for villainy, impure mirrors who reflect back at us the false purities we hide.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2018

And Gorky was far from alone in his scorn, as painting raced toward the purities of Abstract Expressionism.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2015

As soon as you start to demand metals at higher purities then the costs soar.

From Forbes ● Aug. 19, 2013

But seabed explorers have found purities of 10 percent and higher — turning the obscure deposits into potential bonanzas.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2012

There are purities so intense that, like fire, they burn those who would handle them, however tenderly.

From In the Wilderness by Robert Smythe Hichens