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Recent Examples of hygienic In their interviews with town businessmen, the Sodality women try to convince the men that more hygienic practices will actually improve their bottom line, but the men are skeptical: why do anything new? Deborah Williams july 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025 Additionally, many users report that a bidet is more comfortable and hygienic than traditional toilet paper alone. Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2025 Not bringing that into the house probably seems hygienic to him. Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 8 July 2025 The 72-hour storage function reduces the need to transfer items to a separate drying rack or sterilizer, helping maintain a clutter-free counter and a more hygienic setup. Nia Bowers, USA Today, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for hygienic
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Adjective
  • The sanitary sewer overflow released an additional 131 million gallons.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • From more sanitary and reliable health care products to light-weight (and hence energy efficient) infrastructure, plastics have been just as transformative in their benefits to humanity as bronze or copper or iron.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Dealing with the horrors of the situation in Gaza within the sterile environment of a call center, its workers are feeling increasingly hopeless, caught in the political crossfire of an escalating situation.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
  • For the first time, a technological tool seemed to truly understand us—not as a sterile database, but as a conversational partner.
    Avital Pardo, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Hygienic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hygienic. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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