antiseptic
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He’s about to schlep through a 162-game season with them: plane trips, batting practice, 1 a.m. room service steak dinners in antiseptic luxury hotels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
The early embrace of sunshine as an antiseptic, formalized in New York’s wedding cake towers that were required to step back gradually from the street, soon morphed into a generalized opposition to tall buildings.
From Slate • Jul. 23, 2025
Kulumbegashvili’s realist style — the writer-director filmed actual births — emphasizes antiseptic hospital hallways and the cold procedural quality of Nina’s work.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
They were all the same: tube lights flickering, the air thick with the stench of decay and antiseptic.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2025
The air smells of something sharp and antiseptic.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
Vocabulary lists containing antiseptic
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