expeller
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Origin of expeller
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This natural oil is squeezed from the plant using mechanical methods, such as putting the seeds or fruit through a press known as an expeller.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
Philosophy, thou guide of life! thou searcher out of virtues and expeller of vices!—he wrote as one of the mottoes on his little book of conduct, and to him the words were a living reality.
From Benjamin Franklin by Paul Elmer More
The reputed expeller of the last King of Rome; ii.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
O Philosophy, thou guide of life! thou discoverer of virtue, and expeller of vices! what had not only I myself, but the whole life of man been without you?
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
Lights flashed all over the house at once, from a sort of electric light system that could be instantly lighted and would act as a "burglar expeller."
From Constance Dunlap by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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