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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

Kevin Buzzard, a flamboyant British number theorist, believes that Lean will cleanse mathematics of its excessive sloppiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But he backs attempts to declare the Indemnity Act unconstitutional "to cleanse us of that past".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

For the psychic who does a spiritual cleanse on her, they were lucky to find one who agreed to have his face on camera.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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

After a warm and ice-cold shower, he cleanses his face and rubs a frozen cucumber over it, which he says will reduce puffiness, acne and brighten his skin.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

In addition to herbal supplements, however, some cleanses include ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug used to treat river blindness and elephantitis, which leads to the painful enlargement of body parts.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

Something about it, though, cleanses everything that’s crowding my mind.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

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

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Will the doors of perception ever be cleansed?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

The 2008 stock market crash and the pandemic-related crash in 2020 cleansed the market of at least some of its froth, making many hostile bids more inviting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025

“I know from personal experience rooming with you. I had to go to a temple in Shanghai to be cleansed of it over winter break,” Lian chimed in.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

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

It’s cathartic and cleansing, and sometimes I see dolphins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

They had not seen much of each other since that argument about Honore versus Alabama, but the quarrel had been cleansing for both of them.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison


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