impure
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Artificial and impure, and achieved by doing something only slightly resembling basketball.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
Two major developments in the mid-1800s showed why impure water is dangerous.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025
"Our study represents just the tip of the iceberg, opening new lines of investigation of how impure ice adheres with widespread implications across multiple disciplines," Anand said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023
Elsa Laurenzi, who has written about Rome’s Jewish catacombs, notes that Jews did not come to catacombs to pray, considering burial grounds impure.
From New York Times • May 1, 2023
His impure thoughts were radically different from my own.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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