antiseptic
Example Sentences
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Amid the rebuke, brands have recoiled back within the antiseptic neutrality where they’re most comfortable: irrelevant celebrity cameos, cheap millennial nostalgia, unmoored wistfulness for simpler days.
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2026
In an age before antiseptic, opening up the body almost always led to infection and death.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
But these once surefire hits have never been so limp and antiseptic.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025
Then, later that day, when Megumi, a relative newbie at the sport, cut her hand on the wall, Gordon jumped in to offer her an antiseptic wipe.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2024
All I hear, as Tobias applies antiseptic to his skin, is the wind.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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