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Recent Examples of abluted
The fabs demand caution, reverence, and of course the hygiene of an abluted priest.
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Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abluted
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Though no bombs fell there in the early months of the war, there was little protection from the elements, and the sanitary conditions were abysmal.Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Displaced from his home in Khartoum by the war, Samer has witnessed female peers struggling to obtain sanitary pads.UNICEF USA, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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But ground teams detected the helium leak in Starliner's service module in the aftermath of the scrubbed countdown.Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 25 May 2024
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There were no young girls floating by in elegant dresses, no scrubbed and spoiled children dressed in their finery and dragged toward churches and pagodas, no whisper of music drifting out of windows.Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
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That meant that grooming, as a hygienic behavior, gradually started to lose its relevance and our bouts of grooming started getting shorter.ByPhie Jacobs, science.org, 28 Oct. 2024
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In the post-pandemic scenario, using QR codes for payment has become a norm due to quick transactions, ease of use and a hygienic approach to payment.Nitin Gupta, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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One current method used for mosquito control is called the sterile insect technique, which works by releasing many sterile males to mate with females, who tend to mate with only one partner.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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These tests require you to pee into a sterile cup so your healthcare provider can check for protein and waste products in your urine.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 19 Oct. 2024
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More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
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Black people make up about 14% of the U.S. population but are three times more likely to face hunger than white people, according to the Agriculture Department.Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
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One major problem is that these delegations are seldom made cleanly.Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
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Among the 21 artists are Julia Chon and Dave Young Kim, who offer cleanly hard-edge paintings of, respectively, a woman in traditional garb and two storks below two strands of barbed wire.Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
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“Abluted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abluted. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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