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sanitize

verb as in sterilize

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Online commentators and some customers accused the company of sanitizing its image and taking the charm out of its restaurants.

At its worst, Orange County appears to be nouveau-riche snobbish, insecure, artificially flavored and colored, vapid, priggish and drearily sanitized.

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As rapidly as the grizzly video of his killing circulated online, many across the political landscape worked to sanitize his legacy of inflammatory rhetoric without interrogating his actual arguments.

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Democratic Congress members accused ICE of sanitizing a downtown L.A. processing facility ahead of their visit to inspect.

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“These latest attempts to sanitize and reshape history to fit a narrow ideological narrative amount to nothing less than the erasure of history,” said JANM’s President and Chief Executive Ann Burroughs.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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