impure
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Artificial and impure, and achieved by doing something only slightly resembling basketball.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
Two major developments in the mid-1800s showed why impure water is dangerous.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025
They found that as impure water freezes, it expels contaminants that drain along channels and ice-grain boundaries toward the ice base, where it forms a liquid layer that gives ice extra slipperiness.
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023
Elsa Laurenzi, who has written about Rome’s Jewish catacombs, notes that Jews did not come to catacombs to pray, considering burial grounds impure.
From New York Times • May 1, 2023
Anyone who made that fateful passage became impure, polluted.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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