detergent
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The consumer goods company, which owns Tide detergent and Crest toothpaste, logged profit of $4.73 billion, or $1.97 a share, compared with $4.75 billion, or $1.95 a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
In Kawasaki, on the southern outskirts of Tokyo, hundreds of machines at a venue operated by the specialist chain Benex are filled with bottles of soda, bags of sweets, and detergent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
He served 78 days for shoplifting soap detergent, and had initially been given a suspended 32-week sentence but had breached it.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
She hired her house manager to allow her room for joy and to be fully present with her 6-year-old daughter instead of worrying about whether they were running low on laundry detergent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
I heard his mother tell my mother that she has to buy industrial-sized bottles of bleach and boxes of detergent in bulk at the buying club.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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The end-of-summer networking bonanza was organised by 20 business groups representing everything from cars to clean energy, digital to detergents.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Additional sources of nutrients include industry, septic tanks and household detergents.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Petroleum is also used to make detergents that help toothpaste foam and synthetics that improve shelf life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
Many common products, including plastics and detergents, rely on chemical reactions that depend on catalysts made from precious metals such as platinum.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026
The most frequently repeated messages will be station call signals and appeals to purchase detergents, deodorants, headache tablets, and automobile and petroleum products.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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