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as in to disinfect
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as in to romanticize
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Hospitals like Mission need potable water for staff to sanitize equipment, clean wounds and simply wash their hands with soap.
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
Tumbling towels in an automatic dryer will help sanitize towels and kill microorganisms.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2024
Leave a comment View Comments The beans are retrieved, washed and sanitized, then made into coffee and not, incidentally, sold at a great premium.
—Richard Quest, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
To sanitize your drying rack and reduce the amount of mold growth, spray or soak it in a solution of water and vinegar, says Dr. Shapiro.
—Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 Sep. 2024
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
Tumbling towels in an automatic dryer will help sanitize towels and kill microorganisms.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2024
Leave a comment View Comments The beans are retrieved, washed and sanitized, then made into coffee and not, incidentally, sold at a great premium.
—Richard Quest, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
To sanitize your drying rack and reduce the amount of mold growth, spray or soak it in a solution of water and vinegar, says Dr. Shapiro.
—Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 Sep. 2024
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Finally, gather up your tomato stakes, cages, and plant labels, use a 10% bleach solution to disinfect them, and then store your supplies away until next season.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2024
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Washing clothes, dusting surfaces, spraying down furniture with linen spray, and disinfecting your bathrooms all do a world of good for lifting the air in your home.Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
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Maybe the current resurgence of bows in fashion stems from the desire to reclaim this narrative while simultaneously romanticizing our lives in turbulent times.Romany Williams, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
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Such images were tools of propaganda that romanticized the Caribbean as a utopia after decades of associating the region with savagery and malady.Shameekia Shantel Johnson, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
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On a hot summer day in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, dozens of men removed pipes, asbestos and hazardous waste while working to decontaminate a nuclear facility and prepare it for demolition.Cathy Bussewitz, The Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2024
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The investigation comes a week after Beijing News reported that companies where using tankers to transport fuel and cooking oil without properly decontaminating the tankers between trips in order to save money.Bruce Gil, Quartz, 11 July 2024
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The arguments made by antiabortion states to sugarcoat their manifestly misogynistic policies have always borne the acrid odor of cynicism and hypocrisy.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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And Riley, for all of the relatively sanguine parts of her public persona, has admirably seen no need to sugarcoat any of it, either.Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
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These efforts include invalidating mail-in ballots, purging swing state voter rolls, and challenging the votes of Americans and military service members overseas.Jeff Raikes, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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All 20 have been purged from the rolls and referred for potential prosecution.Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
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This idealized notion of fragile Southern womanhood was used to justify the Jim Crow system of segregation for decades.Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024
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This bias helps build emotional bonds in the early stages of a relationship by idealizing your partner and fostering a deeper connection.Mark Travers, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
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Rainwater run-off that is purified, well water, makes cannabis plants very happy.Lindsey Bartlett, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
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That means water agencies can purify our wastewater and return it to our sinks.Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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When the sun is in Scorpio, the energy of transformation is intensified.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Rafael is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane Tuesday and could rapidly intensify over the warm water of the northwest Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane Center.Mary Gilbert, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Sanitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitize. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.
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