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Recent Examples of sterilize
Small miracles spare the staff Most Saturdays, Abdallah and his staff are flitting between patient rooms and laboratories, sterilizing equipment, checking on growing embryos and walking hopeful parents through the arduous process of in vitro fertilization.
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Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
After carefully studying the life cycle, USDA scientists figured out a way to sterilize male fly larvae with doses of gamma radiation without hurting the males' abilities to find mates.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 May 2025
The Hidden Job Explained Before every surgery or surgical procedure, equipment must be sterilized to make sure that the medical tools are free from contaminants and germs.
—Chris Westfall, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Our skin was red from just trying to, like, sterilize.
—Alex Apatoff, People.com, 3 May 2025
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Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
After carefully studying the life cycle, USDA scientists figured out a way to sterilize male fly larvae with doses of gamma radiation without hurting the males' abilities to find mates.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 May 2025
The Hidden Job Explained Before every surgery or surgical procedure, equipment must be sterilized to make sure that the medical tools are free from contaminants and germs.
—Chris Westfall, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Our skin was red from just trying to, like, sterilize.
—Alex Apatoff, People.com, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterilize
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What begins as a family reunion turns into a disturbing chain of events that alters the balance between the world of the living and the dead, infecting an entire neighborhood with voices from beyond.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
2 June 2025
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Familiarity with those three helped Kirk learn when his pitchers’ offerings are especially locked and when he’s got to alter the plan.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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Thompson said the organization spayed or neutered more than 22,000 cats and dogs last year and expects higher numbers this year.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2025
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The man goes back to the vet and tells him to neuter the dog.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
20 May 2025
Verb
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Male piglets are routinely castrated without anesthesia.—
Eric Levitz,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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The victims are all male, the corpses all castrated, and each crime scene is signed with lines of poetry by the Argentinean writer Alejandra Pizarnik.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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For me, kilts, pearls, shirts on the head, these are all things that were meant to be like, emasculated and meant to look feminine.—
Brenton Blanchet,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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Women in these relationships were cast as disruptors of traditional gender roles, while men in these relationships were portrayed as emasculated.—
Kim Elsesser,
Forbes.com,
5 May 2025
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As of now, the issue has mostly been fixed, though not entirely.—
Tyler Foggatt,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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Keep in mind that bush-type beans and peas generally don't need support, but pole beans require trellises or cages for their vining stems. Lupines: Many growers don't realize that lupines belong to the legume family and can also benefit neighboring plants with their nitrogen fixing roots.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 June 2025
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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