PASTEURIZED Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words

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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

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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

The water contained urine from the porta-potties that had been filtered through a system visible beneath the tank.

— Lauren Oyler, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
The smoke in Philadelphia had filtered down from wildfires in northern Ontario; cities across the United States issued air-quality warnings to residents, directing them to stay indoors as much as possible.

— Matt Gelb, New York Times, 16 July 2026

Definition of filtered

Verb

For 20 years, Rozay has refined a larger-than-life kingpin character, one that directs drug traffic and greenlights hits while anchored in Biscayne Bay, an iced champagne bucket always within reach.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 July 2026
According to Archer, Halo leverages technologies refined through nearly eight years of electric aircraft research and testing.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026

Definition of refined

Verb

And here, the researchers simply purified the translation machinery and supplied it to the SpudCells.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
The amount may be infinitesimal—white sugar and bottled water are sometimes purified with charred animal bones, for instance—but some hypersensitive alpha-gal patients avoid the risk anyway.

— Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 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

The symbolic landscape of Trianon Monuments like those Orbán built during his tenure are sites where complex historical narratives can be distilled to their essential elements.

— Brett R. Chloupek, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
But American whiskey has been showing its value as well in recent years, as elusive Van Winkle bourbons and vintage whiskey distilled at the famed Stitzel-Weller Distillery have achieved sales figures never seen before.

— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 July 2026

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