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purified

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verb

past tense of purify

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Recent Examples of purified
Adjective
Rather than requiring highly purified feedstock to make a specialized semiconductor material, manufacturers could potentially start with more abundant and less refined iron ore. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026 It is derived from purified DNA fragments extracted most commonly from salmon, and sometimes from certain trout. Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2026 Maher helped create the opinionated political host, but by now has lived long enough to resent the purified partisan marketplace that followed. Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 23 July 2026 Similarly, SpudCell was assembled from the bottom up with purified, nonliving parts. Tara Deans, The Conversation, 8 July 2026 Workers feed iron ore, coal and limestone into the furnaces’ top and use long sticks to punch open holes for purified molten iron to flow out from the bottom. John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026 The work was done in mice using a purified form of phytic acid. Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026 Cetaphil’s face serum uses purified peptides to improve your skin’s elasticity and reduce the appearance of lines. Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 22 June 2026 The report finds that purified terephthalic acid production and monoethylene glycol, used to polymerize polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, are the biggest contributors across nearly all environmental impact categories. Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 June 2026
Verb
This gas will then be purified and concentrated, ready for export to local gas networks as what is termed renewable natural gas (RNG). Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026 And here, the researchers simply purified the translation machinery and supplied it to the SpudCells. ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026 The amount may be infinitesimal—white sugar and bottled water are sometimes purified with charred animal bones, for instance—but some hypersensitive alpha-gal patients avoid the risk anyway. Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 But that doesn’t matter because that’s been purified. Bart Jansen, USA Today, 23 June 2026 She was hooked up to a hemodialysis machine where her blood flowed out of her body to be purified and was then transferred back into her body where it was reabsorbed. Literary Hub, 1 June 2026 There it is filtered and purified before being fed into the Reflecting Pool. New York Times, 31 May 2026 Inside these trains, natural gas is purified and cooled to about –260 degrees Fahrenheit (–162 degrees Celsius), below the boiling point of methane. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026 When the characters played by Carey Mulligan and Kaden Leos begin to tiptoe into that void, Gosling sells the Driver’s transition into a man finally come alive, revitalized by love and purified by violence. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purified
Adjective
  • Unitree’s debut is the first real public-market pricing on a pure-play humanoid robot company.
    John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • His pure skill level and offensive IQ are long-term minor concerns.
    Corey Pronman, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Xi has purged or expelled most of the seven-member Central Military Commission, leaving just him and one other member.
    Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Even when Putin purged Russia’s defense ministry for corruption, including much of Shoigu’s own personal network, Putin transferred Shoigu to a weighty role in the Security Council rather than disempower him.
    Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • As water moves through their gills, it is filtered for microscopic organisms that these mollusks then consume as food.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
  • That risks creating a different version of the same problem, where legitimate candidates get filtered out by systems that are also guessing at what is real.
    Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Prologis said the numbers were refined as key details were worked out.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Hybrid tech has been around for decades, and some automakers have refined their hybrid nameplates over the years, mastering the balance between affordability and efficiency for consumers.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • However, the department has not clarified the scope, and has not confirmed whether legitimate PSLF credit has been rescinded for some borrowers and, if so, whether it will be restored.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Elci clarified that was a nod to his father’s work ethic, not a disregard for his passing.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Hoffman was born in Brooklyn, one of 10 children in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, and raised in Montreal after her Canadian mother extracted the family.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Like gallium, germanium is generally recovered as a by-product rather than extracted from dedicated mines.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026

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