as in to purify
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She was hooked up to a hemodialysis machine where her blood flowed out of her body to be purified and was then transferred back into her body where it was reabsorbed.—
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There it is filtered and purified before being fed into the Reflecting Pool.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
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Next is purifying and hydrating with the Body Wash, which moisturizes and plumps skin while deeply cleansing pores, strengthening the skin barrier and triggering cellular regeneration.—
Celia Shatzman,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Enjoy a few minutes of peace in the shower while cleansing and moisturizing your skin.—
Laura Lu,
Parents,
22 May 2026
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After the team’s chastening winter in Australia, it isn’t lost on Root that the upcoming series against New Zealand is symbolic.—
James Wallace,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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Perhaps my sisters would say that my sojourn in Kansas and Missouri, and then all the way to Massachusetts to visit my dead husband’s family, chastened me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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None of this is intended to take away from the ambivalent and sometimes plainly harmful effects of attempts to spiritualize the pandemic.—
Benjamin Kirby,
Quartz Africa,
1 May 2020
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Thought and speech — thought’s public projection — are both combined and spiritualized.—
Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
22 June 2019
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But the group is also a kind of filter, a place where women from all ethnic backgrounds (a laudable aspect of the screenplay is the refusal to overtly classify the participants as Hutu or Tutsi) may exorcize some of their pain and anger before addressing the Gacaca.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
26 May 2026
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Her blank-canvas stare allowed viewers to more easily project their experiences onto her, and perhaps even exorcise their frustrations through Mary’s problems.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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“Lustrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lustrate. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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