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One is an assay that would bypass laborious cell purifications and manipulations by detecting activated T cells in blood samples squirted into tubes premixed with bits of SARS-CoV-2 proteins.

From Scientific American • May 19, 2022

He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline, purifications the more complete and thorough.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

There were baths and purifications; the worshippers wore linen garments and slept alone.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)

He dreams of imaginary faults, imaginary purifications, and clears out his conscience with the old witches' broom.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

The offences have already been brought under definite categories, and in like manner the purifications and punishments fall into a number of distinct classes.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max