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detergent

[dih-tur-juhnt] / dɪˈtɜr dʒənt /
NOUN
soap
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We continue to live among gasoline, plastic, detergent, coffee, shampoo, exhaust fumes, fried food and synthetic fragrances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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

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

And even as algae consumes that phosphorus, it is being topped up in the water by agriculture, wastewater, un-maintained septic tanks, industry and every household in the catchment that puts phosphorus-containing detergent into the system.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Finn sniffed a sleeve, and there it was: Mom’s unique odor, a mix of vanilla and Spring Breeze laundry detergent, with maybe some cinnamon and grass stain lurking underneath.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Researchers use it to improve proteins such as enzymes and antibodies that play important roles in medicine, industrial manufacturing, and even everyday products like laundry detergents.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 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

I just have a couple of white spots that are probably there because Mom switched detergents or something.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish


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