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purified

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verb

past tense of purify

Example Sentences

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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
  • Over time, no existing civilization has remained ethnically or culturally pure or set in the same borders.
    Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026
  • There’s nothing slavishly authentic here, but the recipes’ bones are pure Mexico.
    Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 25 Aug. 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
  • Sunlight bent and filtered through Earth's atmosphere leaks into the shadow, carrying the red-orange glow of every sunrise and sunset around the world.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The grading process was one of the places where Darlington and colorist Daniel Gill really wanted the image to look grounded and authentic, not polished and Instagram-filtered.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The resulting sauce is glossy enough to spy your reflection in its jet black depths, refined yet powerful with its distinct wallop of deep, earthy flavors.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
  • After dipping its toes into beauty, Old Navy has refined its strategy and is gearing up for a nationwide rollout.
    Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • During the call, Kress clarified further that the magnitude of memory prices led Nvidia to reset expectations, given the higher prices expected next year, said Kress.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Three days after the initial story, a person close to Fields authorized to speak for Fields and his family clarified the player’s view of the lead-up to the altercation.
    Jim Barnes August 26, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Using specialist skills, the team carefully extracted Purdy and reunited the kitten with her owner.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
  • With the clock racing down to find Joe before she's extracted out of the country to her death, the team launches an assault against an airport hangar.
    David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

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“Purified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purified. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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