contaminate

• “As the cook cut the melons s/he transferred the contaminate from the outside of the fruit to the inside.”

  Treating Veggies and Fruit

• “David Cameron's favourite thinktank, Policy Exchange, published a book-length condemnation which claims that The Spirit Level's authors had produced a shabby, shallow work which threatened to "contaminate" our presumably honest political debate, as if it were an oil slick heading towards a pristine coast.”

  The Guardian: The book that has the Tories running scared

• “The authorities had been allowed to "contaminate" the results,”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “To me it recalls the thinking that a drop of African blood in one's heritage was enough to "contaminate" one's whiteness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: La Gloria Cubana

• “While local television broadcasts are permitted, cinemas are banned, and Khan rails against Western videos that "contaminate" Islamic and Afghan cultural values.”

  Newsweek: Reining In The Warlords

• “That human explorers will "contaminate" Mars is inevitable -- humans contain oceans of bacteria, and a human presence on Mars is sure to leave some behind.”

  Boing Boing: May 12, 2002 - May 18, 2002 Archives

• “The guards scrambled to pick up all the leaflets so our message wouldn't "contaminate" the criminals confined in the prison.”

  On Yankee Station

• “The 18,000 Druse and 2,000 Alawites on the Golan would be reunited with their co-religionists, but decades of life under the Zionists will have created social, economic and, yes, political expectations that could "contaminate" the larger Syrian polity.”

  Jihad Monitor

• “This of course raises a question: if shoes are so ritually unclean, just how are these people holding these shoes so as not to 'contaminate' themselves?”

  Soccer Dad

• “If I were to perform this work and have my LLC send them the bill, would these earnings "contaminate" my passive income thereby screwing up my tax situation?”

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