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Recent Examples of disinfect
Dusting, waxing or disinfecting your furniture is always good practice to uphold the aesthetic of your piece.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 May 2025
Lysol's Lavender & Cotton Blossom fragrance is available in a suite of Lysol products to disinfect or clean every room in the home, killing 99.9% of germs while leaving behind a refreshing scent!
—Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Currently, her injections require careful preparation, such as disinfecting her entire counter with alcohol pads.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2025
Bleach Cleaning Method To disinfect a wood cutting board, especially after using it to prepare raw meat, soak it in a mild bleach solution (2 tsp.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2025
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 May 2025
Lysol's Lavender & Cotton Blossom fragrance is available in a suite of Lysol products to disinfect or clean every room in the home, killing 99.9% of germs while leaving behind a refreshing scent!
—Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Currently, her injections require careful preparation, such as disinfecting her entire counter with alcohol pads.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2025
Bleach Cleaning Method To disinfect a wood cutting board, especially after using it to prepare raw meat, soak it in a mild bleach solution (2 tsp.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disinfect
Verb
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Discard the ice and sanitize ice machines and/or ice trays.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
28 May 2025
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Tips For Using Bleach The Centers for Disease Control warns consumers of important safety tips when using bleach to clean or sanitize: Bleach should never be mixed with ammonia or other cleaners.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
26 May 2025
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Between 300 and 350 personnel at the facility were decontaminated as a precaution, officials said.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2025
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A day earlier, sheriff’s officials sent an urgent message out to patrol cars, saying the air had become so toxic after days of wildfires that deputies should wear masks on the job and decontaminate their uniforms before stepping foot in their homes.—
Keri Blakinger,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Unlike Save Europe, which has hundreds of TikTok edits and YouTube mixes devoted to purifying countries and turning them into ethnostates, the Agartha-Vril zone has no coherent idea or apparatus of attack yet.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
30 Apr. 2025
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Looking like something out of a sci-movie, the Dyson Zone is both a noise-canceling headphone set and an on-the-go air purifying system.—
Cierra Cowan,
PC Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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Or has this show wiped Big from everyone’s memories?—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
6 June 2025
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Either way, finish the process by wiping the area down with clean water and drying with a towel to remove any remaining moisture.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
5 June 2025
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In early April, Hegseth purged 400 books from the Naval Academy library on race relations, gender, and sexuality.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum and party allies have said the elections are a way to purge the court system of corruption in a country that has long faced high levels of impunity.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 June 2025
Verb
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Give your dad the gift of peace of mind with a data removal service that scrubs his personal details from people-search sites and shady data brokers.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2025
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Dampen a small portion of your microfiber cloth with rubbing alcohol and apply directly to the stain by dabbing, being careful not to rub or scrub.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
5 June 2025
Verb
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Deen said housekeepers are often required to clean a room every 15 minutes, which leads to injuries and less-clean rooms.—
Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
31 May 2025
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Add Aquatic Plants Aquatic plants not only look serene, but help clean the water and provide shade for fish.—
Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2025
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If your machines are not designed to wash, rinse, and spin-dry such bulky items, a large duvet could ruin the spin mechanism.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
31 May 2025
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The air of familiarity goes a long way in establishing a new story and avoiding a wash, rinse and repeat cycle involving any stories or other characters from The Karate Kid movies and Cobra Kai.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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“Disinfect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disinfect. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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