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struggling to live a life of purity while surrounded by wickedness
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Additionally, its purple (not blue) color, as well as its sheer mass at that level of purity means that in this stone’s formation, the conditions of the earth’s crust at that specific point under Sri Lanka were set up perfectly to generate not a tiny perfect thing, but a great big perfect thing.
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Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Such channels could still have ads and provide a new revenue stream for Netflix, while a TCM channel could keep its sponsorships without ads to maintain the purity of the TCM brand.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026
To maintain the purity required for ferroelectric behavior, the group then grew its own crystals in-house.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026
Using data from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the paper’s authors observe that when overdose deaths began falling in mid-2023, the measured purity of fentanyl sold on the street began falling roughly in tandem.
—Charles Fain Lehman, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
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Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Such channels could still have ads and provide a new revenue stream for Netflix, while a TCM channel could keep its sponsorships without ads to maintain the purity of the TCM brand.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026
To maintain the purity required for ferroelectric behavior, the group then grew its own crystals in-house.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026
Using data from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the paper’s authors observe that when overdose deaths began falling in mid-2023, the measured purity of fentanyl sold on the street began falling roughly in tandem.
—Charles Fain Lehman, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
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“Purity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purity. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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purity
noun
pu·ri·ty
ˈpyu̇r-ət-ē 
1
: the quality or state of being pure : freedom from impurities
2
: freedom from guilt or sin
Medical Definition
purity
noun
pu·ri·ty
ˈpyu̇r-ət-ē
: the quality or state of being pure
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