as in to purify
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There are three fan settings to keep you cool, as well: fan mode for direct cooling, breeze mode to mimic a light breeze, and backward airflow mode to purify and humidify without cooling.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
25 Apr. 2025 -
This Levoit pick effectively purifies indoor air with a three-stage filtration system.—
Maggie Horton,
People.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Limit the potential negative effects of makeup on your skin by choosing products with safe ingredients, cleansing your face well every night before bed, and going without makeup one or two days per week.—
Sarah Bradley,
Health,
16 Apr. 2025
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These beers will help cleanse your palate between each gooey bite.—
Em Sauter,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Two months later, his side suffered a 5-2 defeat to Crystal Palace, followed by a chastening 5-0 loss away to Chelsea in May.—
Roshane Thomas,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Market shakeouts are about testing risk tolerances, forcing a rethink of unexamined premises and, at times, chastening the arrogant.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
3 Mar. 2025
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None of this is intended to take away from the ambivalent and sometimes plainly harmful effects of attempts to spiritualize the pandemic.—
Benjamin Kirby,
Quartz Africa,
1 May 2020
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Thought and speech — thought’s public projection — are both combined and spiritualized.—
Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
22 June 2019
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Pretty much the entire town goes full Jack Sparrow, dressing up in pirate costumes and waving wooden swords to commemorate and exorcise the trauma of a time when attacks by the formidable Hayreddin Barbarossa, a.k.a.—
Lee Marshall,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2025
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A lot of the lyrics started as situations of extreme distress, needing some way of exorcising it.—
Meaghan Garvey,
Pitchfork,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Lustrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lustrate. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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