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purified

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verb

past tense of purify

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Recent Examples of purified
Adjective
Short for polydeoxyribonucleotide, it’s made from small, purified fragments of DNA taken from the sperm cells of certain fish, usually salmon or trout. — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026 Scaling remains major challenge Beyond reducing errors, Google’s researchers demonstrated that the purified quantum states could be transferred between two different error-correction methods. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026 By 2023, Amazon Web Services was using purified wastewater in 20 data centers. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026 While many fish oil supplements are available over the counter, prescription versions contain highly purified and concentrated forms used to treat very high triglyceride levels. — T'keyah Bazin, Verywell Health, 1 Oct. 2026 Wellness informs every aspect of life on board, from ensuring purified air and maximum comfort during sleep to the study of color schemes for different times of the day. — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026 This grading is critically different from that of purified products graded for use in sterile injectable drugs. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2026 Orange County similarly uses purified wastewater to replenish its groundwater. — Piper Heath, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 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
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
  • In My Own Words is a product of the enchantment and pure yearning Ne-Yo saw as fundamental to R&B.
    — Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The 100% pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils are crafted to deliver long-lasting, natural fragrance.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Emphasis on the enough, especially after a dismal 2025 season that perhaps was further purged Sunday.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The president has essentially purged the House GOP ranks of those perceived to be disloyal.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The database can be filtered by gender, region, size and other characteristics, providing a more detailed view of the populations brands are designing for.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Results can be searched and filtered, and files can be previewed before recovery.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The techniques were refined between the wars by the French, British, German, and Spanish armed forces, and during the Second World War, tens of thousands of casualties were flown across the European and Pacific theaters.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The wristwear was predictably refined—in terms of both aesthetics and proportions—reflecting the growing appeal of the small dress watch.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The California Department of Education clarified that a waiver the district received only applies to the 80% staffing rule and does not extend the three-year spending deadline, meaning unexpended funds revert to the state.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Officials do not know what caused the chemical release, which the city clarified was not an explosion.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Raw inputs are extracted from the periphery, refined and assembled in the metropole, and sold back at a markup.
    — NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
  • In that moment, walking through room after room of marble and silk and silver, all of it extracted from illiterate workers in the fields and fishing boats on the horizon, the reasons for the Protestant Reformation became fully clear to me.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Purified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purified. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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