as in to excuse
to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuses
the propaganda film attempts to deodorize the dictator's history of human rights abuses
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Recent Examples of deodorize
Baking soda: This can be used to deodorize, remove stains, and clean surfaces.
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Joe Difazio, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Garbage disposal: Pour some down the drain with baking soda to help deodorize and cut grease.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
This is applied inside the bowl itself and helps to deodorize and clean the bowl with every flush.
—Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
The lavender-scented repairing heel balm taps vegan squalane, organic virgin olive oil and macadamia and jojoba oils to deodorize and repair.
—Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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Joe Difazio, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Garbage disposal: Pour some down the drain with baking soda to help deodorize and cut grease.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
This is applied inside the bowl itself and helps to deodorize and clean the bowl with every flush.
—Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
The lavender-scented repairing heel balm taps vegan squalane, organic virgin olive oil and macadamia and jojoba oils to deodorize and repair.
—Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deodorize
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This creates a tension between excusing and exempting abuse.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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But for her, the speculation doesn’t excuse what came next.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
29 May 2025
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But in the late 19th century, Finkelstein explained, women who'd worked as nurses during the Civil War, even though not part of the Union or Confederate armies, lobbied for and won the right to be buried at Arlington.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
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As a condition of invitation to the festival, breweries must have a brewer in attendance to answer questions and explain their beers.—
Don Tse,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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This tactic is sometimes used to justify letting an employee go under the guise of poor performance.—
Sho Dewan,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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By confusing the idea that the people’s will must prevail with what the law actually says, these leaders justify intimidating judges and their sound legal rulings, a move that ultimately undermines democracy.—
Michael Gregory,
The Conversation,
23 May 2025
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Radiation can also be used to palliate painful bone metastases, as well as chemotherapy.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
1 Oct. 2024
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Radiation can also be used to palliate painful bone metastases, as well as chemotherapy.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
1 Oct. 2024
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Inside, three bedrooms and four baths are spread across almost 2,300 square feet of multi-level living space boasting a mix of stone and wide-plank French oak floors, arched doorways, and whitewashed wood-beam ceilings dotted with skylights.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
23 May 2025
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The Venezuelan government has used the program as a political marketing tool to whitewash its role in the mass exodus that has forced more than 8 million people to flee due to humanitarian and economic crises and political persecution.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
22 May 2025
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Pagels, rehabilitating aspects of Christianity on terms that a secular scholar can respect, revels in the contradictions and the inconsistencies not as flaws to be explained away but as signs of the faith’s capaciousness.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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Given there were parent chaperones on the trip, students figured this would be hard to explain away, even for Green.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
3 May 2025
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“Deodorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deodorize. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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