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as in to disinfect
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as in to romanticize
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Recent Examples of sanitize
Discard the ice and sanitize ice machines and/or ice trays.
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Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 28 May 2025
Tips For Using Bleach The Centers for Disease Control warns consumers of important safety tips when using bleach to clean or sanitize:
Bleach should never be mixed with ammonia or other cleaners.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 May 2025
The orange juice equipment parts and machine got washed, rinsed, but not sanitized.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
Leff suggested using disinfectant wipes to sanitize flyers' seat areas, since with airflow and filtration will spread smells, sprays, or perfumes.
—Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 28 May 2025
Tips For Using Bleach The Centers for Disease Control warns consumers of important safety tips when using bleach to clean or sanitize:
Bleach should never be mixed with ammonia or other cleaners.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 May 2025
The orange juice equipment parts and machine got washed, rinsed, but not sanitized.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
Leff suggested using disinfectant wipes to sanitize flyers' seat areas, since with airflow and filtration will spread smells, sprays, or perfumes.
—Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitize
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Trainers disinfect open wounds and put numbing cream around horns to minimize pain.—
Chang W. Lee,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
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If disease is present, disinfect the pruners between cuts and plants with a diluted bleach solution.—
Erica Browne Grivas,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 May 2025
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Some writers and economists say that romanticizing this one particular sector of the economy is more about nostalgia or political pandering than rational thinking about what will best serve workers and the economy.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
27 May 2025
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The film doesn’t want to romanticize La Cañada Real.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
20 May 2025
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Between 300 and 350 personnel at the facility were decontaminated as a precaution, officials said.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2025
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A day earlier, sheriff’s officials sent an urgent message out to patrol cars, saying the air had become so toxic after days of wildfires that deputies should wear masks on the job and decontaminate their uniforms before stepping foot in their homes.—
Keri Blakinger,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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The director never sugarcoats life in the Big Apple for Lu, his family, nor for the rest of the striving migrant underclass.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2025
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These women share advice ranging from diet to fitness to mental health, and their messaging is not, er, sugarcoated.—
Gracie Wiener,
Air Mail,
3 May 2025
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In early April, Hegseth purged 400 books from the Naval Academy library on race relations, gender, and sexuality.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum and party allies have said the elections are a way to purge the court system of corruption in a country that has long faced high levels of impunity.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 June 2025
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This juxtaposition — between a humiliating, critical father and an adoring, idealizing mother — may have fractured Hitler’s developing sense of self.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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This square can bring spiritual delusions or idealized dreams that need refining.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
29 May 2025
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Unlike Save Europe, which has hundreds of TikTok edits and YouTube mixes devoted to purifying countries and turning them into ethnostates, the Agartha-Vril zone has no coherent idea or apparatus of attack yet.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
30 Apr. 2025
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Looking like something out of a sci-movie, the Dyson Zone is both a noise-canceling headphone set and an on-the-go air purifying system.—
Cierra Cowan,
PC Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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In response, Trump authorized thousands of National Guards to the California city, and 700 Marines arrived on Tuesday, intensifying tensions between the federal and state government.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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This influx of graduates has significantly intensified competition at the entry level, prompting employers to consider factors beyond academic qualifications when making hiring decisions.—
Kara Dennison,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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“Sanitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitize. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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