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Recent Examples of impurity Before eating, wash the watermelon thoroughly to remove any pesticides or impurities from the skin. Lauren Manaker Ms, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2025 The juice is extracted, boiled, cleaned of impurities, and crystallized. Merve Ceylan, Health, 2 Oct. 2025 The mineral-rich solution is collected in a pond after it is drained from the rock and is then exposed to solvents and electricity that attract the minerals like a magnet while leaving water, acid and impurities behind. Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2025 The red and white clays do the heavy lifting by clearing impurities and tightening pores without over-drying. Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for impurity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impurity
Noun
  • Authorities closed off part of the beach to collect evidence and prevent contamination of the site.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • This fear of moral contamination has only grown.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, plenty of other things in your home surpass the toilet in terms of grossness.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Brain rot has become unavoidable, its grossness ubiquitous.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The nation eventually lost its foothold on the lake, which became polluted in the 19th and 20th centuries as industries dumped mercury, salt and other contaminants into the water.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Concern about levels of arsenic in drinking water comes alongside worry about a host of other potentially harmful contaminants in America's drinking water.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Songs marked explicit mean their lyrics include swear words or other vulgarities.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The presence of these planes flying close to our Caribbean Sea is a vulgarity, a provocation, a threat to the security of the nation.
    John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Once captured, the pollutants are converted through a natural chemical reaction into stable byproducts—CO2 into carbonates such as calcium carbonate (CaCOz) and NOx into small quantities of harmless nitrates.
    Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The agency recently announced a plan to ease regulations on climate pollutants known as hydrofluorocarbons.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There is plenty of coarseness in American arenas totally unrelated to MAGA or Trumpism, of course.
    Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
  • An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Those exceptions include true threats, defamation, harassment and obscenities.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • On Florida college campuses, student attempts to speak out for Palestinian rights — including calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas — have been met with Islamophobia and obscenities in some instances, students say.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Impurity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impurity. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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