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Recent Examples of purification Air purification addresses not only viruses and pathogens, which can be extremely dangerous for vulnerable individuals, but also smoke and ash from wildfires and pollutants in general. Jamie Gold, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025 The treatment involves four stages: purification, warmth, focus and recovery. Akili King, Essence, 23 May 2025 Call it a long-overdue reckoning, repossession or purification. Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025 This Polish American tradition not only involves people affectionately spraying others, as an act of cleansing or purification, but the day involves another interesting practice. Michele Herrmann, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for purification
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salvation
Noun
  • Her mother found her daughter’s cowardice in the face of strangers a secret disgrace, but Constance also had a father who was happy with her and with their time together, and that likely had been her salvation.
    Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum indicated in his own post that the project’s salvation may have come in response to pro-pipeline remarks from Hochul.
    Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 20 May 2025

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“Purification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purification. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.

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