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as in to disinfect
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as in to romanticize
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While it was shuttered, Vásquez said his team sanitized the restaurant, throwing out all of its food, and met with county officials, who tested employees for salmonella.
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Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
To sanitize fabrics used by someone who has been sick that cannot be washed in warm or hot water, use a laundry sanitizer product.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2024
Input Validation: Validate inputs to prevent injection attacks and sanitize outputs to avoid data exposure.
—Meenakshi Panda, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Hospitals like Mission need potable water for staff to sanitize equipment, clean wounds and simply wash their hands with soap.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
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Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
To sanitize fabrics used by someone who has been sick that cannot be washed in warm or hot water, use a laundry sanitizer product.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2024
Input Validation: Validate inputs to prevent injection attacks and sanitize outputs to avoid data exposure.
—Meenakshi Panda, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Hospitals like Mission need potable water for staff to sanitize equipment, clean wounds and simply wash their hands with soap.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
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Disinfect surfaces: To reduce the spread of the virus, regularly clean and disinfect surfaces like doorknobs, light switches, and countertops.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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News stories suggested the poisonings were a tragic consequence of rumors circulating in Iran that alcohol could disinfect internal organs and protect against COVID-19.ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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Determined not to romanticize or fetishize his subjects, Fukunaga confesses to struggling during the editing process, and not always getting the calls right.Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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It was even romanticized itself in sublime, dramatic compositions like Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s paintings of the ironworks at Coalbrookdale, England.Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
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Some residents are allowed to visit their homes but can’t move back there while thousands of workers remove topsoil, branches, and other materials to decontaminate these areas.Amanda Kennell, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2024
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Toby and Will have to work out their issues, CJ lays some hard truths on Donna, and Leo and Abbey have a frank discussion while Bartlet, Debbie, and Charlie are decontaminated.Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 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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In 2022, after acquiring the social network, Musk infamously purged Twitter’s ranks and fired 80 percent of its employees in the first six months, and then made a series of management decisions that ultimately threw the company into further financial disarray.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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The ruling is a blow to the Biden administration after the Department of Justice convinced lower courts to halt the voter roll purge so close to the election.Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 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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Much remains unknown about the current system, its track and chances for intensifying later in the week.Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Sanitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitize. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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