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as in to disinfect
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as in to romanticize
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Recent Examples of sanitize
Navarro explains that this is most likely because people commonly touch their spice jars with unclean hands after handling raw meat and don’t sanitize the containers after the fact.
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Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 14 Mar. 2026
The inspector advises that the facility clean and sanitize all of the surfaces, and then have emergency pest control check to see if there are any remaining rodents.
—Adam Thompson, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
Wash and sanitize any surfaces the treats touched, including your hands.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
Wash and sanitize both the rack and tray weekly, and dry them before reassembling.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2026
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Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 14 Mar. 2026
The inspector advises that the facility clean and sanitize all of the surfaces, and then have emergency pest control check to see if there are any remaining rodents.
—Adam Thompson, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
Wash and sanitize any surfaces the treats touched, including your hands.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
Wash and sanitize both the rack and tray weekly, and dry them before reassembling.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitize
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Retailers and restaurants are also being encouraged to clean and disinfect the containers that once held the raw seafood.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
13 Mar. 2026
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That included failing to properly disinfect the units before using them and failing to isolate the equipment from the operating rooms during the surgeries.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
10 Mar. 2026
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Varas didn’t sound interested in romanticizing March.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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British live-fire cook Genevieve Taylor didn’t start out romanticizing cooking over an open flame, with visions of industry cred or Michelin stars dancing in her head.—
Brock Keeling,
Oc Register,
30 Mar. 2026
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Among our responsibilities was decontaminating people and equipment after exposure to hazardous materials.—
Jennifer N. Pritzker,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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Penny and Ghazarian hired their own industrial hygienist, who concluded the property needed to be decontaminated of heavy metals and other combustion by-products.—
Tony Saavedra,
Daily News,
5 Mar. 2026
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There's no other way to sugarcoat that or go around that.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Fernández didn’t sugarcoat the standard.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Of the 44 officers selected to join the Communist Party’s top-leadership council, 40 have been purged or gone missing since mid-2023, Neil Thomas, a fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, told me.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2026
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Trump has since purged both commissions of critics and appointed loyalists to take their places.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
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California Adventure, at its most idealized, stood for more than an assortment of film properties.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Many love songs idealize; here, John Prine and Iris DeMent sweetly rattle off a list of each other’s endearing imperfections.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2026
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Once purified, the atmospheric sample enters an enrichment stage that significantly enhances the detectability of trace gases.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
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Without needing batteries or wires, the Moso Natural air-purifying bag attracts particles out of the air like a magnet, and continuously works to remove odors and harmful pollutants from your home, filled with just one powerful ingredient -- moso bamboo charcoal.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The backlash intensified because of timing.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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Most importantly, the legislation intensified punishments for those with prior convictions, with the worst offenders looking at a first-degree felony with up to 30 years imprisonment.—
Sean M. Cleary,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Sanitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitize. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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