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cleanse

[klenz] / klɛnz /


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This momentary cleanse won’t save them, but it will keep them going.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Once, they brought in a shaman to cleanse the house with sage and cedar during a full blood moon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

“No power, no justification, and no time can cleanse this great tragedy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

"For the rivers within us flow with ease, fears washed away, cleanse and purify. Come to peace with our tears and discover what it means to be alive," she says.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Devon Kelley, a content creator who has posted to #ShowerTok, double cleanses her body once or twice a week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

It was just out of earshot from Oz nodding along to musings on how “sleep is when the brain cleanses itself.”

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

To try and find a solution, he started researching his symptoms online, where he came across a forum of people reporting their experiences with parasite cleanses.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

I explore “Why not both?’” since water cleanses us — not just physically but spiritually, emotionally and mentally.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

“A shield that repels germs while it gently cleanses your pores, leaving a spanking-clean exterior.”

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

Maybe it’s because he was lucky enough to have his footprint cleansed a bit.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

She feels cleansed by the sea and the fog that shrouds the world’s ugliness, and believes there is happiness to be salvaged from the wreckage of her past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

I reclined in the exam chair as Shalom parted my hair into sections and cleansed the area with an antiseptic liquid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

“That cleansed the space of a lot of weaker companies,” he says.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025

She had the doctor trait which some dogs possess; and as a mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck’s wounds.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

He added that some of the money will also go towards fixing more potholes and further cleansing in the city centre.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Among other capabilities, the new site will be the company’s global center for skin care and cleansing and have a “human performance lab” that will enable on-site testing of ingestibles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Earlier work by the team showed that corona discharges could be a significant source of these atmospheric cleansing agents within forest canopies.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

Blankfein added that the long period without a financial crisis cleansing process meant ”you accumulate tinder on the floor of the forest and eventually a spark will come.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026

A cold spell had swept in and with it a cleansing rain.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy


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