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n. - Making something free from filth and pathogens.

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  • There is a tendency to equate end-of-life data protection with data sanitization, which is only one essential component of the process.
  • This "sanitization" doesn't hurt the book or the desired pulp feel, but it is nevertheless noticeable.
  • If the killers had taken the time to tend to sanitation, it would have slowed their "sanitization" campaign.
  • RODGERS: The sanitization came not from the Army, but came from CNN.
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