purify
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Studies after that conflict concluded the damage hampered efforts to purify water and contributed to infant mortality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Ice masters look at the PH levels of the water and purify it to remove minerals and impurities.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
The punishments were made after a "systematic review" and were needed "to enforce industry discipline, purify the football environment, and maintain fair competition", the CFA wrote on its official social media account Thursday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Board of Water and Power Commissioners voted to purify 45 million gallons, enough water for 500,000 people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
He began by throwing out the rubble his father’s men had left and cleaning up his premises, breathing rhythmically to empty his insides of any trace of anger and to purify his spirit.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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This patent-pending technology purifies the isotope by removing it from the bismuth target and then loads it onto a shipping column for incorporation into targeted alpha therapy drugs.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
A key supply item is a replacement pump for the system on the ISS that purifies urine back to drinking water.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024
The system purifies wastewater using a three-step advanced treatment process, and the water then percolates and is injected into the groundwater basin, where it becomes part of the water supply.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2023
The company takes in shipments of refrigerators and tanks from around the country and beyond, drains them, then purifies and reclaims the chemicals, shipping out recycled product.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
It purifies me, leaving me scoured both inside and out.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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The Metropolitan Water District already is planning a large new facility in Carson to transform wastewater into purified drinking water.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
It did so, nominating thousands of ingredients, including, for example, purified water and asparagus.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
It’s a sprawling tale of divine corruption and human treachery that ends with the world being purified by fire and flood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Dr. Dudek-Wicher also highlighted an important distinction between professionally produced, purified ClO₂ solutions, which are sometimes used in dentistry, and the mixtures prepared at home by MMS supporters.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
Wilkins had obtained some highly purified DNA from a Swiss lab and stretched it into thin, uniform fibers.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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He talks with Anita Diamant, the author and founding president of Mayyim Hayyim, which reimagines the Jewish purifying ritual of mikvah bathing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Sartre argued that for the antisemite, “there is no question of building a new society, but only of purifying the one that exists.”
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
The companies purifying water look like better bets than the high-tech customers who use it.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
To perform the analysis, the researchers used acetonitrile to extract PAHs before purifying the samples with several combinations of sorbents.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2025
He stuffed the purifying herbs and birch-bast wrapping into the neck of his parka, and looked down at what Renn had made for him in the night.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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