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Recent Examples of sterility
Costs can be high because peptides are often custom-made and must meet strict quality and sterility standards.
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Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Some galleries have had pigment—blue, red, black—mixed into the concrete, softening the material’s sterility.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
Kilitch Healthcare had serious quality lapses, in which the facility was filthy, employees were barefoot on the manufacturing floor and the company fraudulently passed products that failed sterility tests.
—C. Michael White, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
There are also concerns about sterility and consistency, Kobets says.
—Erica Sweeney, Time, 9 Apr. 2026
Kilitch Healthcare had serious quality lapses, in which the facility was filthy, employees were barefoot on the manufacturing floor and the company fraudulently passed products that failed sterility tests.
—C. Michael White, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
Engineers must ensure that the bag volume and heat exchanger capacity scale up accordingly, all while maintaining sterility and easy bedside handling.
—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
This can affect the solution’s sterility.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Some galleries have had pigment—blue, red, black—mixed into the concrete, softening the material’s sterility.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
Kilitch Healthcare had serious quality lapses, in which the facility was filthy, employees were barefoot on the manufacturing floor and the company fraudulently passed products that failed sterility tests.
—C. Michael White, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
There are also concerns about sterility and consistency, Kobets says.
—Erica Sweeney, Time, 9 Apr. 2026
Kilitch Healthcare had serious quality lapses, in which the facility was filthy, employees were barefoot on the manufacturing floor and the company fraudulently passed products that failed sterility tests.
—C. Michael White, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
Engineers must ensure that the bag volume and heat exchanger capacity scale up accordingly, all while maintaining sterility and easy bedside handling.
—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
This can affect the solution’s sterility.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterility
Noun
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Research shows that women with a history of depression are twice as likely to experience infertility.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
20 May 2026
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In vitro fertilization is a medical procedure that can be used to address several infertility struggles.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
19 May 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
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“Sterility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterility. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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