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as in to disinfect
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as in to romanticize
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Recent Examples of sanitize
Clean and sanitize cutting boards, knives and surfaces that come into contact with raw foods.
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Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
Dishwashers are a workhorse appliance that sanitize utensils, cookware, dishes, and more, saving you time in the kitchen.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 30 Dec. 2025
Inspectors also found that staff didn’t always wear all the necessary PPE, take the PPE on and off properly or adequately sanitize the gear.
—Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Staff were required to clean and sanitize the kitchen immediately and arrange for a licensed pest control operator to service the facility within 24 hours.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
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Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
Dishwashers are a workhorse appliance that sanitize utensils, cookware, dishes, and more, saving you time in the kitchen.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 30 Dec. 2025
Inspectors also found that staff didn’t always wear all the necessary PPE, take the PPE on and off properly or adequately sanitize the gear.
—Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Staff were required to clean and sanitize the kitchen immediately and arrange for a licensed pest control operator to service the facility within 24 hours.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitize
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To disinfect a sponge, soak it in bleach for five minutes and thoroughly rinse with clean water.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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Try This Instead After each use, clean and disinfect your household tools.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Southern Living,
7 Jan. 2026
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Though winter brings shorter days and frosty weather, a trip to the slopes has a way of romanticizing the season.—
Mecca Pryor,
Essence,
8 Jan. 2026
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Nothing wrong with a little fantasy, but this year’s astrology asks us to stop romanticizing potential and start paying attention to what feels genuine, reciprocal and enduring.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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After receiving a settlement from his insurance company, Minds used the funds to decontaminate and fix his house.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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Minds used his settlement not only to decontaminate but also to harden his home.—
Rina Nakano,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Marie, who always considered herself an athletic person growing up, does not sugarcoat the physical demands of her profession.—
Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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In these allegories of dehumanization, greed, and hope, Marshall takes an unvarnished view of his subjects, one that doesn’t sugarcoat the past or succumb to nostalgia for a mythical, precolonial Golden Age.—
James Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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The government is probably going to purge all Democratic voters.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Jan. 2026
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Observers expected Powell to follow that tradition, especially after the Fed reappointed the regional presidents, easing fears that Trump would purge them to stack the Federal Open Market Committee with his loyalists.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Post-Aristotle, infinity was always idealized, never realized — a philosophical construct at best.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
25 Nov. 2025
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For most home cooks, a once-a-year turkey is a gastronomic absurdity, needlessly idealized, inevitably formidable to prepare.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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The team used vacuum or micro-injection techniques The team with LLNL’s Nuclear and Chemical Sciences (NACS) Division, developed the radiochemical techniques to purify target material.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Jan. 2026
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In the final step of the process, the paste is thawed and purified into a liquid at a high temperature.—
Alice Park,
Time,
5 Jan. 2026
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For immigration advocates in the Bay Area, Good’s death has intensified long-standing concerns about intimidation and retaliation against those who monitor federal agents.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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The chaos intensified after someone threw a snowball.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Sanitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitize. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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