elutriated

Definition of elutriatednext
past tense of elutriate
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Verb
  • The Angels have been on a road trip all week but a team spokesman said Tuesday that the stand has been cleaned and will be reinspected ahead of a homestand that begins Friday against the New York Mets.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The Hyundai, when detectives looked at it, appeared to have been recently cleaned, according to the court document.
    Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Clothes were washed outdoors in a heavy barrel called a zhlukto, or carried to a nearby stream.
    Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Opposite Paul Newman, she was featured as a character known as Lucille, The Girl, who sensuously washed his car in an iconic scene from 1967's Cool Hand Luke.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • But decadents only break taboos in a bloodless, symbolic way—they’re too lazy and refined for murder.
    Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • Those were refined to feature a chemical called mitragynine.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • Heat is extracted and pumped into a closed-loop pipe system under the house, where it is cooled by the earth.
    Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • She was pronounced dead after Orange County Fire Authority firefighters extracted her from the vehicle and rushed her to a nearby hospital.
    Michele Gile, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Wang and his colleagues purged 382 isoleucine residues from ribosomal proteins, but the rest of its genome still contains more than 81,000 isoleucine residues across thousands of other proteins.
    Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Roenicke never had a chance, taking over a team that would soon go on a salary dump that purged Betts, the 2018 AL MVP, along with 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner David Price.
    Jimmy Golen, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • My skin was quenched and cleansed at once, and Vargas’ fluency in her craft made the time absolutely fly by.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The goal in the West Bank is to create a homogenous ethnicity in a space that is being cleansed of Palestinians, and to expand the Israeli footprint there.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Sergei Skripal’s home, the area surrounding the bench where the pair was found, the home of a detective who fell ill, and two ambulance stations had to be decontaminated, along with the restaurant and pub.
    Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Penny and Ghazarian hired their own industrial hygienist, who concluded the property needed to be decontaminated of heavy metals and other combustion by-products.
    Tony Saavedra, Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Once purified, the atmospheric sample enters an enrichment stage that significantly enhances the detectability of trace gases.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Inside these trains, natural gas is purified and cooled to about –260 degrees Fahrenheit (–162 degrees Celsius), below the boiling point of methane.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026
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“Elutriated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elutriated. Accessed 3 May. 2026.

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