detergent
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As inflation weighs on Japanese households, huge arcades on the outskirts of major cities are installing claw machines filled with eggs, rice, laundry detergent and other necessities.
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
MASON, Ohio—As the nation’s dominant purveyor of laundry detergent, Procter & Gamble PG -0.12%decrease; down pointing triangle knows full well that consumers have strong feelings about their wash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
She pulled down the wooden shutters of the kiosk, covering the neatly arranged cases of matches, chewing gum, sweets, cigarettes, and detergent, and then picked up Olanna’s bag and led the way into the yard.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
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 colorless gas is also used to make chemicals found in products such as antifreeze, detergents, plastics and adhesives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025
Water pollution experts throughout the United States are concerned by the fact that detergents are now a troublesome and practically universal contaminant of public water supplies.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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