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as in to disinfect
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as in to romanticize
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Recent Examples of sanitize
Always wash or sanitize your hands before and after handling your birds or moving them between coops.
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Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
But the governing body for more than half a million young athletes must remember nothing will ever sanitize that industry.
—Lz Granderson, Boston Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Thoroughly clean and sanitize any surfaces, containers, or utensils that may have come into contact with the raw eggs.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 24 Oct. 2025
The foundation organized nearly 2,000 events that year, in addition to operating a television channel, radio station, and magazine—all of which serve to sanitize the country’s international image.
—Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
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Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
But the governing body for more than half a million young athletes must remember nothing will ever sanitize that industry.
—Lz Granderson, Boston Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Thoroughly clean and sanitize any surfaces, containers, or utensils that may have come into contact with the raw eggs.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 24 Oct. 2025
The foundation organized nearly 2,000 events that year, in addition to operating a television channel, radio station, and magazine—all of which serve to sanitize the country’s international image.
—Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitize
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Make sure to use clean garden tools for cutting to avoid spreading diseases among plants, and disinfect the tools between cuts.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
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In one particularly troubling instance, the assistant director of nursing was unable to identify the contents of a spray bottle that was being used to disinfect face shields of staffers who were caring for COVID-19 patients, according to official reports.—
Kevin G. Hall,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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This is your cue to romanticize your own life, Scorpio.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
2 Nov. 2025
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The idea of what a tough guy is is a little bit romanticized in the archetype of Clint Eastwood – just being really stoic and not saying a lot.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
29 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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This is your cue to stop sugarcoating.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 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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After the sun set and the mob had been purged, Pelosi returned to a Capitol in shambles to help complete the day’s task.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Miami should have purged the roster even more, shipping off starters for draft picks, but apparently none of the bids enticed Ross and his minions, who are the individuals really calling the shots now.—
Omar Kelly
November 4,
Miami Herald,
4 Nov. 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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Violence has intensified, humanitarian aid remains blocked, and political prisoners, including my mother, remain behind bars.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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Yet even among a number of Christians seeking to raise awareness and intensify efforts to put an end to systematic abuses committed by Boko Haram and other jihadi movements, the prospect of foreign intervention raises serious concerns.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Sanitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitize. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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