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Recent Examples of insanitary
Employees were observed to only sanitize their gloved hands after touching insanitary surfaces and then resumed touching RTE food and various food contact surfaces.
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Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
12 Jan. 2025
The company admitted that by January 2021 some employees were aware that the insanitary conditions were causing products to become contaminated.
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Kate Gibson,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2024
Velichko said that he and several fellow volunteer drivers were housed in one of half a dozen insanitary, crowded barracks, which contained about 300 inmates in total.
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Anna Nemtsova,
The Atlantic,
25 Aug. 2022
Items ranging from dietary supplements and medication to cosmetics and pet foods may have been exposed to insanitary conditions at Family Dollar's distribution facility in West Memphis, Arkansas, federal officials said in a news release.
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Aya Elamroussi,
CNN,
19 Feb. 2022
But not by Roberts, who wrote that the blame for the concentration camps deaths lay with their inmates themselves, and their insanitary habits.
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft,
The New Republic,
14 Oct. 2021
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
12 Jan. 2025
The company admitted that by January 2021 some employees were aware that the insanitary conditions were causing products to become contaminated.
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Kate Gibson,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2024
Velichko said that he and several fellow volunteer drivers were housed in one of half a dozen insanitary, crowded barracks, which contained about 300 inmates in total.
—
Anna Nemtsova,
The Atlantic,
25 Aug. 2022
Items ranging from dietary supplements and medication to cosmetics and pet foods may have been exposed to insanitary conditions at Family Dollar's distribution facility in West Memphis, Arkansas, federal officials said in a news release.
—
Aya Elamroussi,
CNN,
19 Feb. 2022
But not by Roberts, who wrote that the blame for the concentration camps deaths lay with their inmates themselves, and their insanitary habits.
—
Geoffrey Wheatcroft,
The New Republic,
14 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insanitary
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Epidemics, worsened by the unsanitary conditions caused by the mountains of garbage the government has stopped collecting, combine with the shortage of medicines and the dire state of medical facilities.
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According to investigators, the girl was found with severely matted hair and living in unsanitary conditions.
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The team aimed to fashion a rotting meat smell to recreate this slightly unhygienic oral arrangement.
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Airline blankets can be reused from passenger to passenger, which, to state the obvious, is extremely unhygienic.
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From downtown Los Angeles to the San Gabriel Valley, tens of thousands were enveloped in unhealthful levels of smoke, even as some local officials told residents that the air posed no danger.
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The soil may contain pathogens, pesticides and other unhealthful things.
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“Insanitary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insanitary. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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