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struggling to live a life of purity while surrounded by wickedness
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Then last year, Post Malone got nominated, and Beyoncé won, and suddenly a separate space manifests to honor the purity of the form.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
The purity test is far stricter than anything applied in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
—Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
But keeping to the setting's standards of virginity and purity, only widow Violet can get away with it.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
By requiring agreement between TPC energy loss and TOF velocity measurements, ALICE achieves 99 percent purity for pion identification and 100% for deuterons—even in events where 30 particles are flying apart simultaneously.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
The purity test is far stricter than anything applied in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
—Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
But keeping to the setting's standards of virginity and purity, only widow Violet can get away with it.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
By requiring agreement between TPC energy loss and TOF velocity measurements, ALICE achieves 99 percent purity for pion identification and 100% for deuterons—even in events where 30 particles are flying apart simultaneously.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for purity
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“Purity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purity. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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purity
noun
pu·ri·ty
ˈpyu̇r-ət-ē 
1
: the quality or state of being pure : freedom from impurities
2
: freedom from guilt or sin
Medical Definition
purity
noun
pu·ri·ty
ˈpyu̇r-ət-ē
: the quality or state of being pure
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