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purified

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verb

past tense of purify

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Recent Examples of purified
Adjective
Once ramped up, Circ expects the facility to process 70,000 metric tons of polycotton textile waste annually and produce cellulose pulp, purified terephthalic acid and monoethylene glycol. Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026 The product also contains benzalkonium chloride, boric acid, edetate disodium, purified water, sodium chloride and sodium citrate as inactive ingredients. Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026 Omnivores should punch up the platter with the special beef kitfo, raw steak that drips with herbed, purified butter and gets its fiery kick from mitmita, a spice blend with chile peppers. Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026 Rather than requiring highly purified feedstock to make a specialized semiconductor material, manufacturers could potentially start with more abundant and less refined iron ore. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026 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
Verb
But what if the water and nutrients could be purified from whey permeate and used for other purposes? Idaho Statesman, 17 Aug. 2026 Once hydrogen is flowing from the ground, how will the gas be purified? IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purified
Adjective
  • Swift was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant elite, and the text satires both the callousness of his class and a then-ascendant approach to morality and politics that held that all aspects of life could be cooked down to a pure numerical value.
    Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Instead, Bier recognizes the pure joy of seeing these women drinking margaritas again, resulting in a vivid and sweet celebration that gradually reframes aging as a process of gaining power rather than losing it.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Black and female military officers have been purged or denied promotion.
    Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Immigration courts are backed up and judges have been purged.
    Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Everything gets filtered through target demographics, pitch decks, and comparative commercial comps.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Those realistic works contrast with more romantic views of farming, which some artists filtered through a bucolic lens that no doubt concealed a grimmer reality.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Goertz took Birdsall's basic ideas and refined them into something far more cohesive, blending the visual extravagance of 1950s America with a distinctly European sense of proportion.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Automakers like Toyota have refined their hybrid powertrain systems over the years to ensure that vehicles can travel incredibly long distances on a single tank of gas.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Rushworth’s departure has clarified the goalkeeper situation at Brighton.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • These ads seem to violate federal child pornography laws, since the Justice Department has clarified that AI CSAM is just as harmful as CSAM.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Days before the hawker crackdown, Ruto ordered India’s Tata Chemicals to leave Kenya, arguing that the company had extracted value from the country without creating enough local investment or jobs.
    Vivianne Wandera, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Sea salt, meanwhile, refers to salt extracted from ocean water or lakes.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Purified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purified. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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