as in to purify
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The chefs worked together for several hours, first to sterilize the onggi over heated charcoal topped with a small amount of honey, which fumigate and purify the vessels.—
Andrea Strong,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 May 2026 -
Moringa trees have been used to purify water for millennia, with evidence of their use by ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, said Adriano Gonçalves dos Reis, a study author and a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology of São Paulo State University.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
29 Apr. 2026
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Speaking of ventilation, don’t forget to breathe deep; a new electric air filter cleanses our world’s increasingly polluted atmosphere, an issue contributed to by the S-Class itself.—
Brett Berk,
Robb Report,
15 May 2026
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Other ingredients like colloidal oatmeal and glycerin simultaneously soothe and hydrate the skin while cleansing.—
Claire West,
PEOPLE,
15 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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The old adage that no military plan survives first contact with the enemy has been given a new twist: first contact was not chastening but excessively efficacious.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 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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Diagnosed by an esoteric rabbi as possessed by his father’s dybbuk, Bernardo must exorcise the spirit and face adulthood.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
11 May 2026
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Flash-forwards bookending each episode promise, eventually, Niall finds a way to exorcize his shame.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Lustrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lustrate. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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