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It’s designed to protect against pathogens — like viruses and bacteria — that have contaminated the water supply but can be neutralized with high heat.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

Plaster chemicals have contaminated many of the bones inside the casts, making them difficult to analyze.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 22, 2023

And the human waste and fires have contaminated public parks, which has increasingly frustrated LA residents.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023

Their manufacture and persistence in products have contaminated drinking water nationwide.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2023

And she never knew that most of the words she set to her soothing, extemporaneous tune would have contaminated anybody, most of all Mrs. Schuyler Driggs herself.

From Winner Take All by Evans, Larry