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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
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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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Radiation protection personnel allegedly responded to the incident quickly, pulling the worker from the water and decontaminating him safely.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
24 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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Mercury in Scorpio doesn’t sugarcoat — the messenger planet dives deep beneath the surface of every conversation, searching for what is real, what is hidden and what needs to be revealed.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 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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Ross needs to lean into purging this franchise of its mediocre ways, which has turned a generation of South Florida fans away from football.—
Omar Kelly
October 31,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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Studios en masse suspended all of its first look and overall arrangements with writers, and the studios used the opportunity to purge from its ranks some of the expensive ones with talent that weren’t actually resulting in any shows.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
28 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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Berenter said people have become more familiar with the concept of purifying sewage — and much more trusting of the science behind it — since San Diego first floated the idea two decades ago.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 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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Melissa rapidly intensified, jumping from a 70 mph tropical storm on Saturday morning to a 140 mph Category 4 hurricane Sunday morning.—
Mitchell McCluskey,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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The 2023 edition opened a month later as Israel intensified its bombing campaign on Gaza, which has since killed more than 67,000 people, injured another 170,000 and razed the Palestinian territory to the ground, prompting accusations of genocide, which Israel has strongly rejected.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Sanitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitize. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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