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detergent

[dih-tur-juhnt] / dɪˈtɜr dʒənt /
NOUN
soap
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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

Now the maker of Tide detergent and Bounty paper towels has to find ways to keep momentum as Americans squeezed by inflation try to stretch budgets and find value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

She’d expected it to smell like detergent, like home, and she braced herself for a whirl of nostalgia.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

The facilities produce raw materials used to make pharmaceuticals, clothing, cosmetics, detergents, construction materials and military explosives in the UK and Europe.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

In those studies, the researchers developed approaches for converting other types of plastic waste into surfactants used in products such as soaps and detergents.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

He then started his career in marketing at consumer-goods conglomerates, working on brands from detergents to dairy products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

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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