pasteurized 1 of 2

adjective

as in uncontaminated

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verb

past tense of pasteurize
as in filtered

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Recent Examples of pasteurized
Adjective
For the most health benefits, opt for kombucha with no more than five grams of sugar per serving and avoid pasteurized versions, which reduce probiotic content. — Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 8 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasteurized
  1. uncontaminated
  2. filtered
  3. undiluted
  4. refined
  5. pure
  6. purified
  7. unadulterated
  8. distilled
Adjective
  • The city's website also includes guidelines regarding the disposal of sandbags — only dry and uncontaminated bags should be reused, and those that have been exposed to floodwaters should be placed in residents' bulk trash piles for collection.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • Lin collects uncontaminated plastics which include needle and medication caps, as well as plastic containers.
    — Molly McCrea, CBS News, 1 May 2026
Definition of uncontaminated
Verb
  • Instead, to view a partial solar eclipse, people should use solar eclipse glasses that are properly filtered.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Kansas City artists, comedians, entrepreneurs and other figures from the city’s nightlife scene filtered through the business, including people who had shared stages, studios and social spaces with McGee.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of filtered
Adjective
  • Remove Mold Stains From Painted Walls Kill mold spores and lighten moldy stains by spraying the area with undiluted hydrogen peroxide.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 14 July 2026
  • But the accountability stays, whole and undiluted, with the physician.
    — Afnan R. Tariq, STAT, 8 July 2026
Definition of undiluted
Verb
  • Prices for gasoline, which is refined from crude oil, and other fuels and energy products were also higher as a result.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Concurrently, Iran has reportedly refined its Shahed-107 loitering munitions, enhancing their lethality based on combat experience, and continues supplying Russia with drones and ballistic missiles.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of refined
Adjective
  • The interactions between Bourdain and Ciro are pure movie magic and that’s due partly to the performances — both actors have to be in the Oscar race — as well as to the screenplay by Johnson, Todd Bartels, Lou Howe and Matthew Miller.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Unauthorized sequels reveal the extremes of why people make movies in the first place, from purely cynical money grabs to pure — even naive — devotion to characters and their world.
    — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of pure
Verb
  • This gas will then be purified and concentrated, ready for export to local gas networks as what is termed renewable natural gas (RNG).
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
  • And here, the researchers simply purified the translation machinery and supplied it to the SpudCells.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
Definition of purified
Adjective
  • Many who watched that win with unadulterated joy on NBC that Sunday suddenly felt like they may be getting used during the network broadcast of the SOTU on Tuesday.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026
  • All of these solutions are unevenly distributed, and the effects of unadulterated heat are concentrated on the country’s poor.
    — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
Definition of unadulterated
Verb
  • In this case, the whiskey was distilled from January to June of 2015, and aged for a full 11 years in new American oak barrels.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Viewers, including any lawmakers who may have seen it, are invited into an idealized and privileged environment, where the complexity of the choice to die is aesthetically contained and emotionally distilled.
    — Vanessa Rampton, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of distilled

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