as in washed
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as in purged
to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially
in an elaborate ritual the priestess cleansed the gathering of supplicants
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as in cleaned
to remove the dirt from
cleanse the wound with soap and water before applying the bandage
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Verb
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And kind of purged the people around us that kind of always tried to drive wedges for petty little gains.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024 -
Late last month, Xi purged one of his closest proteges in the military – a decades-old associate entrusted with instilling political loyalty in the PLA and vetting senior promotions.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN,
15 Dec. 2024
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
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In this world, the severance procedure literally splits the mind into work and non-work compartments, resulting in employees who live dual existences: one governed by the sterile demands of corporate productivity and the other shrouded in personal mystery.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Like many other hybrid plants, African blue basil is sterile, which helps to explain its extravagant flowering; when a plant does not form seeds, there is more energy to devote purely to flowering.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Strict sanitary practices should be maintained when inserting or removing standard catheters.—
Matthew Wosnitzer,
Verywell Health,
28 Feb. 2025
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Immediate family rules about sanitary conditions around food may be marginally less strict by mutual consent, but consent is still key.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Cleansed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleansed. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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