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as in to disinfect
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as in to romanticize
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Recent Examples of sanitize
Thoroughly wash your produce, heat meats and other foods to proper internal temperatures, wash your hands often, sanitize cooking surfaces and tools after use, properly refrigerate your foods and avoid cross-contamination of raw meats with other foods.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 19 May 2025
Corporate speak and sanitized legalese communication, by definition, cloud the truth.
—Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Throughout this tense period, the Western media also played a dubious role in whitewashing and sanitizing the horrific killings.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
Hospital cleaning robot: A robot with ultrasonic UV rays that sanitizes and removes surface pathogens.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2025
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 19 May 2025
Corporate speak and sanitized legalese communication, by definition, cloud the truth.
—Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Throughout this tense period, the Western media also played a dubious role in whitewashing and sanitizing the horrific killings.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
Hospital cleaning robot: A robot with ultrasonic UV rays that sanitizes and removes surface pathogens.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitize
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Dusting, waxing or disinfecting your furniture is always good practice to uphold the aesthetic of your piece.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
26 May 2025
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Lysol's Lavender & Cotton Blossom fragrance is available in a suite of Lysol products to disinfect or clean every room in the home, killing 99.9% of germs while leaving behind a refreshing scent!—
Adam Mills,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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Some writers and economists say that romanticizing this one particular sector of the economy is more about nostalgia or political pandering than rational thinking about what will best serve workers and the economy.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
27 May 2025
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The film doesn’t want to romanticize La Cañada Real.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
20 May 2025
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Between 300-350 employees were decontaminated at the site and provided Tyvek suits to return home in.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
16 May 2025
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But now, researchers have developed a new way to take the genes from all these species and place them in a single bacterial strain that can decontaminate complex waste mixtures.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 May 2025
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The director never sugarcoats life in the Big Apple for Lu, his family, nor for the rest of the striving migrant underclass.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2025
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These women share advice ranging from diet to fitness to mental health, and their messaging is not, er, sugarcoated.—
Gracie Wiener,
Air Mail,
3 May 2025
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Listen to this article WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president and his agenda.—
Seung Min Kim,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2025
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Just for the record, Patrick Mahomes didn’t get his iconic mohawk sheared off to purge that 40-22 drubbing by the Eagles in Super Bowl LIX.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
23 May 2025
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This square can bring spiritual delusions or idealized dreams that need refining.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
29 May 2025
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While teaching girls independence, education, and leadership is vital, idealizing a solo life is not ideal for individuals or society.—
Zoltan Istvan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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Unlike Save Europe, which has hundreds of TikTok edits and YouTube mixes devoted to purifying countries and turning them into ethnostates, the Agartha-Vril zone has no coherent idea or apparatus of attack yet.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
30 Apr. 2025
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Looking like something out of a sci-movie, the Dyson Zone is both a noise-canceling headphone set and an on-the-go air purifying system.—
Cierra Cowan,
PC Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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Supply chain vulnerabilities exposed during recent global disruptions have highlighted the fragility of our food systems and have intensified competition while simultaneously opening new markets.—
Persa Sakellaridi,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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In New York City, activists have intensified their efforts to protest the rising number of migrant deportations, staging multiple demonstrations in opposition of the administration’s controversial moves against immigrants.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
1 June 2025
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“Sanitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitize. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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