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An example use of sanitary in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… its own pipes called sanitary sewers and …”
Sanitary means clean and free from dirt or disease.
the word sanitary occurs in english on average 0.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.