pristine

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Far from luxuriating in a serene and pristine writing environment, Ms. Lewin reveals, Woolf worked amid “old nibs, bits of string, used matches, rusty paper-clips, crumpled envelopes, broken cigarette-holders, etc.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

"It tells us that these environments are really pristine and healthy," says Bell.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Predicting and timing the final shape is difficult without pristine insight into the highest levels of government and the military—which no investor really has.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

"Our findings suggest that Jupiter's moons did not form as chemically pristine worlds," Mousis said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026

City snowplows thunder through the streets as the white snow gets piled up and sooty, until nothing is pristine.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama