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as in to disinfect
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as in to romanticize
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Recent Examples of sanitize
An employee reportedly washed and dried a container but did not sanitize it.
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
But Acosta pointed out that the inside of a pumpkin is porous and irregular, so properly cleaning and sanitizing a hollowed pumpkin would be difficult.
—Jenna Anderson, Health, 15 Oct. 2025
Quality tongue sleeves and nasal dilators are silicone or other medical-grade materials that are easy to sanitize.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
Make sure to fully clean and sanitize surfaces after.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
But Acosta pointed out that the inside of a pumpkin is porous and irregular, so properly cleaning and sanitizing a hollowed pumpkin would be difficult.
—Jenna Anderson, Health, 15 Oct. 2025
Quality tongue sleeves and nasal dilators are silicone or other medical-grade materials that are easy to sanitize.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
Make sure to fully clean and sanitize surfaces after.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitize
Verb
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Spritz earrings to disinfect them before wearing to prevent infections in your piercings.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
25 Oct. 2025
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Parents received alerts about HFMD cases through email, robocalls and text messages with district officials saying extra steps were being taken to disinfect classrooms, WATN reported.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Often romanticized and glorified as a triumphant moment in Western histories, Columbus’s travels wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, which became one of the key areas for European expansion and subsequently violent accumulation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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With Venus, your ruling planet, also in Libra, this is your chance to romanticize your wellness.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
19 Oct. 2025
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Workers have complained of chemical burns from the waste material generated by the tunneling process, and firefighters must decontaminate their equipment after conducting rescues from the project sites.—
Anjeanette Damon,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
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Last week, a Democratic Congressional candidate was seen being thrown to the ground by a federal agent – the moment was captured on video – while local leaders reported having to leave the protest to decontaminate themselves after tear gas was deployed.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Selma Blair refuses to sugarcoat what life with multiple sclerosis looks like.—
Maggie Ryan,
Flow Space,
23 Oct. 2025
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Demi doesn’t sugarcoat a thing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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In an interview with Cycling Weekly last year, Slovenian Jan Tratnik said that his desperation to lose weight led him to develop bulimia – binge-eating large amounts of food and purging it to avoid weight gain.—
George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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Miao is one of the highest-ranking CMC officials to be purged since the 1960s and is particularly significant since he was personally elevated to the CMC by Xi.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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Gen Z, in particular, has moved away from the hustle-and-grind culture of the 2000s and early 2010s and instead idealizes wellness, leisure and affluence without overt labor.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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There’s no wishful thinking that our society will stop idealizing appearance, but framing and intrinsic motivation matter.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
8 Oct. 2025
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Like the process of purifying reuse water, the desalination process is more expensive than the typical methods of treating non-brackish groundwater for consumption.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Oct. 2025
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These stem cells are purified in a lab, and then modified using an inactivated form of the virus that causes HIV.—
Kaitlin Sullivan,
NBC news,
15 Oct. 2025
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Shared resources, intimate interactions, and unspoken bonds intensify.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Revelations and reports on both sides of the state line, including an Overland Park real estate deal tied to the Royals, have only intensified speculation about either team’s intentions.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Sanitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitize. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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