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Recent Examples of sterility
Engineers must ensure that the bag volume and heat exchanger capacity scale up accordingly, all while maintaining sterility and easy bedside handling.
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Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
The podcast aesthetic—casual, long-winded, sometimes profane—directly opposes, perhaps not coincidentally, the sterility and bizarre right-this-minute quality of cable news, on which everything seems incomplete and therefore manipulative, and yet somehow endless.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
These materials help hospitals maintain sterility and safety in health care environments.
—André O. Hudson, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
This can affect the solution’s sterility.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
But that third element can be overlooked by some venues, particularly in more modern hotels that eschew personality in favor of sterility.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
But the line between control and sterility is a thin one, and slow, predictable possession became a growing source of frustration among fans towards the end of Carrick’s reign.
—Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
The place had the lurking sterility of an upscale medical office, with ground-floor windows that showed the shadows of passing pedestrians.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2025
Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
The podcast aesthetic—casual, long-winded, sometimes profane—directly opposes, perhaps not coincidentally, the sterility and bizarre right-this-minute quality of cable news, on which everything seems incomplete and therefore manipulative, and yet somehow endless.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
These materials help hospitals maintain sterility and safety in health care environments.
—André O. Hudson, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
This can affect the solution’s sterility.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
But that third element can be overlooked by some venues, particularly in more modern hotels that eschew personality in favor of sterility.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
But the line between control and sterility is a thin one, and slow, predictable possession became a growing source of frustration among fans towards the end of Carrick’s reign.
—Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
The place had the lurking sterility of an upscale medical office, with ground-floor windows that showed the shadows of passing pedestrians.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterility
Noun
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Despite extensive testing, doctors diagnosed them with unexplained infertility—offering no clear cause or solution.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
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The natural selection leading to the formation of stronger embryos after short microgravity exposures, on the other hand, could lead to advances in human IVF technologies that help treat infertility on Earth.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Clearly, her absurd office dredged its barrenness from her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Instead, Bevza felt a pressing need to remedy the barrenness of the Ukrainian fashion scene at the time.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
30 Dec. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Sterility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterility. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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