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adjective as in unmixed, genuine

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authentic, bright, classic, natural, neat, perfect, plain, real, simple, transparent, true, unadulterated

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24-carat, clear, complete, fair, flawless, kosher, limpid, lucid, out-and-out, pellucid, plenary, pure and simple, straight, total, unalloyed, unclouded, undiluted, unmingled

adjective as in clean, uncontaminated

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disinfected, germ-free, immaculate, intemerate, pasteurized, sanitary, snowy, spotless, stainless, sterile, sterilized, taintless, unblemished, undebased, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished

adjective as in virginal, chaste

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babe in woods, blameless, celibate, cherry, continent, exemplary, guileless, immaculate, inculpable, innocent, inviolate, irreproachable, kid, lily white, maidenly, modest, pure as driven snow, righteous, sinless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unblighted, uncorrupted, undefiled, unprofaned, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, upright, virgin, virtuous, wet behind ears, wide-eyed

adjective as in absolute, utter

adjective as in theoretical

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The fewer EVs other carmakers sell, the more credit money Tesla takes in as pure profit, boosting its own stock price and putting pressure on the shares of competitors.

Los Angeles is set to build a facility in the San Fernando Valley that will transform wastewater into enough pure drinking water for about 250,000 people.

On the basketball court, he was a rebounding power forward who relied on pure athleticism to score in transition as a sophomore on Sheldon’s state runner-up team.

Their task at the start was to “give certain rules to our language, to render it pure and eloquent” – to which end they set about writing their first dictionary.

“It’s neither” pure chance which homes burn nor completely determined by which home hardening measures were taken, she said.