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verb

past tense of purify

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Recent Examples of purified
Adjective
It is derived from purified DNA fragments extracted most commonly from salmon, and sometimes from certain trout. Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2026 Maher helped create the opinionated political host, but by now has lived long enough to resent the purified partisan marketplace that followed. Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 23 July 2026 Similarly, SpudCell was assembled from the bottom up with purified, nonliving parts. Tara Deans, The Conversation, 8 July 2026 Workers feed iron ore, coal and limestone into the furnaces’ top and use long sticks to punch open holes for purified molten iron to flow out from the bottom. John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026 The work was done in mice using a purified form of phytic acid. Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026 Cetaphil’s face serum uses purified peptides to improve your skin’s elasticity and reduce the appearance of lines. Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 22 June 2026 The report finds that purified terephthalic acid production and monoethylene glycol, used to polymerize polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, are the biggest contributors across nearly all environmental impact categories. Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 June 2026 The scientists demonstrated that tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) spontaneously formed when mixtures of purified coat protein and its genomic RNA were incubated together. Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026
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, 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 But that doesn’t matter because that’s been purified. Bart Jansen, USA Today, 23 June 2026 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. Literary Hub, 1 June 2026 There it is filtered and purified before being fed into the Reflecting Pool. New York Times, 31 May 2026 Inside these trains, natural gas is purified and cooled to about –260 degrees Fahrenheit (–162 degrees Celsius), below the boiling point of methane. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026 When the characters played by Carey Mulligan and Kaden Leos begin to tiptoe into that void, Gosling sells the Driver’s transition into a man finally come alive, revitalized by love and purified by violence. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purified
Adjective
  • By producing pure, highly concentrated molecules that mimic the skin’s natural functions, Lewisham claims her products are more consistent, precise and sustainable.
    Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Reese and Styles were this draft’s best athletes, and there were other safeties in this class with better physical attributes, but Downs was the best pure football player in the class.
    Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Even when Putin purged Russia’s defense ministry for corruption, including much of Shoigu’s own personal network, Putin transferred Shoigu to a weighty role in the Security Council rather than disempower him.
    Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
  • For many, that pales in comparison to the 60 Minutes bloodbath in June that saw correspondents Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega purged, joined by executive producer Tanya Simon and others.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Maintain clean equipment and use filtered or bottled water; regularly clean the portafilter, steam wand, and machine.
    Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2026
  • For starters, neither file is filtered beyond building classification code.
    Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • The headphones also have refined QuietControl noise cancellation, with adaptive feedforward controls.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Regular audits are the mechanism through which standards get pressure-tested and refined.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Sweeney clarified her decision on Sunday, emphasizing that athletes who receive a fifth year do not bypass existing transfer regulations, roster limits or revenue-sharing amounts.
    Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026
  • But in a statement to CBS News, a Justice Department official clarified that since then, the DHS Office of the Inspector General and the Maine attorney general's office are leading the investigation.
    Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Keys and constants that can be extracted from public firmware can be used to authenticate to, or decrypt traffic from, BMCs.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • One draws on samples drawn from a different area; the other uses stool samples extracted in different years.
    Diaa Hadid, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026

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“Purified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purified. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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