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decontaminate

[dee-kuhn-tam-uh-nayt] / ˌdi kənˈtæm əˌneɪt /


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An area near the site remained under a shelter-in-place order as emergency responders continued to monitor and decontaminate the hazards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

One email asked whether clinics could decontaminate rooms where people with measles had just been if the clinics were too small to follow the CDC’s recommendation to keep those rooms empty for two hours.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025

That’s sent water treatment operators scrambling to find ways to decontaminate water supplies without breaking the bank.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2024

Finding better ways to decontaminate soil is critical for improved disaster readiness, making it a national security priority, Deng said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2023

A few essential manufactures had also been revived, mostly in the form of machine shops to decontaminate engine parts.

From The Year When Stardust Fell by Raymond F. Jones

"We created DecontPro, a statistical model that decontaminates two sources of contamination that were observed empirically in CITE-seq data," explains corresponding author Joshua Campbell, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the School.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023

When a uranium mill shuts down, here is what's supposed to happen: The company demolishes the buildings, decontaminates the surrounding soil and water, and encases the waste to stop it from leaking cancer-causing pollution.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2022

A healthcare worker, who volunteered in the Ebola response, decontaminates his colleague in the eastern Congolese town of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo, October 8, 2019.

From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2022

A doctor who cares for people with COVID-19 in Tijuana, Mexico, decontaminates his clothing and other items before entering his apartment.Credit:

From Nature ● Jul. 23, 2020

Anyone coming into the Mount Airy ranch house decontaminates in the basement first.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020

Officials have decontaminated the facility’s inmate housing as a precaution and medical staff are monitoring prisoners and staff for possible symptoms, The Mercury News reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

When reused, the decontaminated robots still picked up plastic and microbes, albeit smaller amounts of both.

From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024

Infected flocks are normally destroyed to prevent the flu’s spread, and then the farms are decontaminated.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

Once carefully decontaminated, this water can be reused for further cutting.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023

If the men being decontaminated, what were they being decontaminated from?

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

Gone are the days of not decontaminating equipment, leaving the ashes on helmets and jackets, in order to boast of past infernos.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The new law sets France "the goal of decontaminating soil and water polluted" by the pesticide, according to a copy on the parliament's website.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Workers at Catalyst Refiners Inc. in Institute, W.Va., were cleaning and decontaminating a metal processing site—in preparation for closing it down—when a chemical reaction created dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas around 9:30 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

“Hazmat recommends decontaminating your uniform prior to entering your home,” the message concluded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

If we do find such a substance we still have the problem of decontaminating existing metals.

From The Year When Stardust Fell by Raymond F. Jones


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