sanitize

Example Sentences

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Homeless people are highly susceptible to infectious diseases that pass through contact with fecal matter because they lack the hygiene resources of people who have private and regularly sanitized bathing and hand-washing facilities.

From Seattle Times

Few people are defending the sanitizing of Dahl.

From Salon

Platforms would likely abandon systems that suggest or prioritize information altogether, or just sanitize their services to avoid carrying anything close to objectionable — creating, as some have put it, either a wasteland or a Disneyland.

From Washington Post

Dahl always resisted unnecessary sanitizing, Mr. Dennison said, noting that the author would recognize that alterations to his novels, brought on by the political climate, reflected adult sensibilities rather than children’s misgivings.

From New York Times

They do not want to sanitize the horrors they’re seeing, but they know that an overly grisly photo may be counterproductive.

From Seattle Times