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as in contamination
something that is or that makes impure
impurities in the water made it cloudy
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as in grossness
the quality or state of being obscene
the impurity of her thoughts was troubling, given her strict upbringing
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Recent Examples of impurity
The gentle shampoo promises to remove impurities from the scalp while protecting against stressors that make hair appear older—from dullness to dryness.
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Kiana Murden, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2024
This isn't the first time duloxetine has been recalled due to the presence of N-nitroso-duloxetine impurities.
—Korin Miller, Health, 11 Dec. 2024
Editors’ Picks The ban, Russia claimed at the time, was needed to protect consumers from impurities, but it was widely seen as retaliation for demands by Moldova that Russia stop supporting the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Clean the skin: People often rinse chicken to remove visible impurities such as blood, feathers, or other impurities before cooking.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2025
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Kiana Murden, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2024
This isn't the first time duloxetine has been recalled due to the presence of N-nitroso-duloxetine impurities.
—Korin Miller, Health, 11 Dec. 2024
Editors’ Picks The ban, Russia claimed at the time, was needed to protect consumers from impurities, but it was widely seen as retaliation for demands by Moldova that Russia stop supporting the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Clean the skin: People often rinse chicken to remove visible impurities such as blood, feathers, or other impurities before cooking.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impurity
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The fires in Altadena and Pacific Palisades consumed not only trees, brush and timber from people’s homes but also lead acid car batteries, plastic pipes, synthetic furniture, paint and untold other potential sources of contamination.—
Jack Healy,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Cucumber recalls Multiple different cucumber products have been recalled over concerns of potential salmonella contamination.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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Personal air monitors won't tell you what toxic contaminants are in the air.—
Alejandra Borunda,
NPR,
18 Jan. 2025
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The contaminants in the burn scars may pose a threat for years.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Even those Republicans who are wary of his volatile leadership style, penchant for vulgarity and willingness to violate conservative orthodoxies are generally reluctant to air those criticisms publicly.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
21 Dec. 2024
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Corbet’s awkward forcing of his characters into his conceptual framework leads to absurdities and vulgarities—not least in the depiction of László’s first and only Black acquaintance, a laborer named Gordon (Isaach De Bankolé), as a heroin addict.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
3 Jan. 2025
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Specifically designed to shield your skin from environmental stressors like pollutants and free radicals—culprits behind premature aging, dullness, and inflammation—this toner does more than refresh.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
19 Jan. 2025
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Decades of health science have demonstrated that such pollutants damage the health of those who breathe them in regularly.—
Alejandra Borunda,
NPR,
18 Jan. 2025
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Back in the 1920s, several residents of the seaside town of Littlehampton in England began receiving poison pen letters rife with obscenities and false rumors.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
23 Dec. 2024
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In short: Your former co-worker needs to cut this [obscenity redacted] out.—
Anna Holmes,
New York Times,
24 Nov. 2024
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As this imagery of toxicity, filth and corruption suggests, Lane had an almost adversarial attitude towards the gut; a myopic suspicion of the digestive system that came to govern his approach to treating patients and which would eventually lead to professional disgrace.—
Elsa Richardson,
TIME,
3 Oct. 2024
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Inmates are maimed and tortured, relegated to an existence of fear, filth and not-so-benign neglect.—
Bart Jansen,
USA TODAY,
1 Oct. 2024
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“Impurity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impurity. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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