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be careful, because impure motor oil can damage your car's engine
Victorian notions of what qualified as impure art now strike us as laughable.
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But to pursue a state of purity—even a fictional one; even a made-up, obviously impure one—still feels righteous.
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
For her part, Lisa compared the risks of dose-splitting with the risks of her alternatives: Either going to a compounding pharmacy, whose copycat drugs might be unreliable or impure, or continuing to live with obesity.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2024
Hartley connected his temperance and milk crusades in An Essay on Milk from 1842, arguing that milk produced in cities was impure not just because of its adulteration by contaminants like formaldehyde, but also because of its sourcing from urban swill sheds.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
Small rural dairies, now considered the source of impure milk, were the new villains creating impure milk.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
For her part, Lisa compared the risks of dose-splitting with the risks of her alternatives: Either going to a compounding pharmacy, whose copycat drugs might be unreliable or impure, or continuing to live with obesity.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2024
Hartley connected his temperance and milk crusades in An Essay on Milk from 1842, arguing that milk produced in cities was impure not just because of its adulteration by contaminants like formaldehyde, but also because of its sourcing from urban swill sheds.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
Small rural dairies, now considered the source of impure milk, were the new villains creating impure milk.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
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impure
adjective
im·pure
(ˈ)im-ˈpyu̇(ə)r 
2
: mixed with something else that is usually not as good
an impure chemical
impurely
adverb
Medical Definition
impure
adjective
im·pure
(ˈ)im-ˈpyu̇(ə)r
: not pure: as
a
: containing something unclean
impure water
b
: mixed or impregnated with an extraneous and usually unwanted substance : adulterated
an impure chemical
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