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  • noun Alternative spelling of sanitization.

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  • noun making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing

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Examples

  • He said it was clear the "sanitisation" of the report was an attempt to dissociate the final decision-makers - a ministerial committee and the cabinet - from the functionaries who did the groundwork in the arms acquisition process.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • A writ petition filed in the Supreme Court last year implicates the Chhattisgarh police in the deaths of a total of 12 villagers in Gachanpalli and Gompad villages as part of "sanitisation" operations in September last year.

    Kafila 2010

  • A writ petition filed in the Supreme Court last year implicates the Chhattisgarh police in the deaths of a total of 12 villagers in Gachanpalli and Gompad villages as part of "sanitisation" operations in September last year.

    Kafila Aman Sethi 2010

  • A writ petition filed in the Supreme Court last year implicates the Chhattisgarh police in the deaths of a total of 12 villagers in Gachanpalli and Gompad villages as part of "sanitisation" operations in September last year.

    Countercurrents.org 2010

  • The fact that anyone could be surprised by the "everyday squalor of war" is a confirmation of the continuous "sanitisation" propaganda by the Military, the Ministries of War (sorry,

    Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • The fact that anyone could be surprised by the "everyday squalor of war" is a confirmation of the continuous "sanitisation" propaganda by the Military, the Ministries of War (sorry,

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • What is striking, however, is the rawness of the accounts, the authenticity of the entries; they cut through the sanitisation of media presentation and popular film depictions, and seem to tell a brutal set of stories.

    Iraq war logs: experts' views Toby Dodge 2010

  • ALWAYS the frontline services, NEVER how many policy officers/equality advisors/internal consultants/telephone sanitisation executives etc etc you could chop without anyone noticing.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • They encapsulate everything about the sanitisation and radio-friendliness of rock music to me…

    The Nervous Breakdown 2010

  • The real humbug is the sanitisation of the criminal terrorist organisations of Hamas, Hezbollah etc. by apologists like yourself, and trying to dignify their barbarism with bona fide motives.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

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