as in washed
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Recent Examples of abluted
The fabs demand caution, reverence, and of course the hygiene of an abluted priest.
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Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abluted
Adjective
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The women alleged the department’s lack of sanitary pumping places caused several of them to develop mastitis, an inflammation of breast tissue that sometimes involves an infection.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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It was designed to divert both sanitary and stormwater flow from Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs and has a capacity of just under 8 billion gallons.—
Mike Nolan,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But ground teams detected the helium leak in Starliner's service module in the aftermath of the scrubbed countdown.—
Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
25 May 2024
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There were no young girls floating by in elegant dresses, no scrubbed and spoiled children dressed in their finery and dragged toward churches and pagodas, no whisper of music drifting out of windows.—
Chantha Nguon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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Dip nails cannot be filled either because the dip formula was designed to be fully removed between applications for the most hygienic experience.—
Lisa DeSantis,
Glamour,
22 Jan. 2025
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As of January 2025, the Brantford facility has undergone a hygienic restoration and is once again producing griddle products for our customers.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This is because unlike polished surfaces which can look and feel cold and sterile, these matte finishes add depth and introduce softness into a kitchen.—
Maria Sabella,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Feb. 2025
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Typically, the ambiance is sterile rather than soothing.—
Maxine Lipner,
Verywell Health,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes,
14 Feb. 2023
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Black people make up about 14% of the U.S. population but are three times more likely to face hunger than white people, according to the Agriculture Department.—
Maya Eaglin,
NBC News,
11 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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One major problem is that these delegations are seldom made cleanly.—
Francis Fukuyama,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Aug. 2014
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Among the 21 artists are Julia Chon and Dave Young Kim, who offer cleanly hard-edge paintings of, respectively, a woman in traditional garb and two storks below two strands of barbed wire.—
Mark Jenkins,
Washington Post,
15 Sep. 2023
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“Abluted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abluted. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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