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Before cleaning, check the care label or manufacturer’s instructions for specific directions to care for the materials contained in the rug.—
Karen Grossman,
Southern Living,
24 June 2025 -
The cooking oil is cleaned and processed to resemble traditional flight fuel and planes generally don’t need to be converted to use it.—
Dawn Attride,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Not pressure washing your driveway can lead to structural damage or even safety hazards on top of the inevitable eyesore.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
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Allman, who works for a commercial pressure washing company in Dallas, frequently appears in Weaver’s social media videos and supports her career as a DCC from the sidelines.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
19 June 2025
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth purged some of Colby’s allies in a complicated internal political spat in April, and the person directly involved in some of the internal arguments said Hegseth tends to side with Kurilla in the arguments over the Middle East.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
14 June 2025
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Where companies once stored every piece of data indefinitely, there's now a clear need to purge outdated or irrelevant information.—
Rajnish Nath,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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Patterson warns that people should not touch bats and should be sure to decontaminate after visiting bat habitat to avoid spreading it.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
27 June 2025
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Also, the robots will need to be decontaminated, and nobody is going to want to have to deal with some sort of special, gentle, robot-friendly decontamination procedure.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
13 Nov. 2014
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Cycling, too, has made changes to cleanse a reputation sullied by the likes of Lance Armstrong.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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Apply it to one section at a time and use a small, damp cloth to cleanse.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
18 June 2025
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Once extracted, researchers began to compare the genetic material discovered to previous samples.—
Nick Butler,
FOXNews.com,
21 June 2025
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In November 2022, President Joe Biden issued a license to allow the oil company Chevron to evade sanctions in order to extract oil in Venezuela.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2025
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Naturally, part of the gameplay experience becomes about processing real-world events like these anti-ICE protests.—
Alyssa Mercante,
Rolling Stone,
20 June 2025
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The agency processes permits and collects location fees on behalf of 22 government bodies around L.A.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
20 June 2025
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While home renovation isn’t a novel concept—people have been tweaking and refining their spaces for centuries—the physical act of remodeling is growing increasingly more nuanced.—
Rachel Gallaher,
Robb Report,
21 June 2025
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All the delays gave Spielberg and his writers (especially Gottlieb) extra time to refine the script, often just prior to filming the scenes.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 June 2025
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“Elutriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elutriate. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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