as in to purify
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Leading the way in the march, Aztec dancers purified the air with incense made by burning the resin of the copal trees.—
Cathie Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
30 Mar. 2025 -
Families often deep-clean homes to purify them during this time.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
28 Mar. 2025
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There have been five mass extinctions on this planet, where almost all life was eradicated, its occupiers cleansed from this place.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
30 Mar. 2025
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This ritual is meant to cleanse the home of chametz (food and drink containing yeast or baking powder) to remind Jews of the flat loaves the ancient Jews baked in the sun for their hasty escape.—
Holly Rizzuto Palker,
Parents,
27 Mar. 2025
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Bayern Munich 12-1 Sporting CP in 2008-09. Elsewhere, despite the success of USMNT players in the league phase, this week was chastening — Milan, Juventus and Celtic’s eliminations knocked out half a dozen of their stars.—
Jacob Whitehead,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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Two months later, his side suffered a 5-2 defeat to Crystal Palace, followed by a chastening 5-0 loss away to Chelsea in May.—
Roshane Thomas,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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None of this is intended to take away from the ambivalent and sometimes plainly harmful effects of attempts to spiritualize the pandemic.—
Benjamin Kirby,
Quartz Africa,
1 May 2020
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Thought and speech — thought’s public projection — are both combined and spiritualized.—
Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
22 June 2019
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Can Tsunoda, who has been waiting in the wings for the best part of the last five years, exorcise the No2 curse at Red Bull?—
Dan Cancian,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Maryland just exorcised its buzzer-beater demons with one shining moment of their own.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Lustrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lustrate. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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