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adjective

processed

freed from impurities by processing

In a sentence

Six example sentences with processed, each labelled with its topic.

  • Processed sugar is stripped of everything the cane carried, which is why it tastes clean and utterly unlike dark molasses.

    Cooking

  • The plant returns processed water to the river only after grit, oils, and metals have been pulled out at four stages.

    Environment

  • Only processed samples go into the spectrometer, since a single speck of dust will swamp the signal they are measuring.

    Science

  • Only processed plasma, filtered of cells and screened twice for infection, reaches the hospital's freezer for storage.

    Medicine

  • Chips begin as processed silicon, refined until fewer than one atom in a billion is anything else.

    Technology

  • The workshop ground processed lapis, washed free of grey stone, into the blue reserved for the robe.

    Art

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