Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for germfree
Adjective
  • The sanitary sewer overflow released an additional 131 million gallons.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • From more sanitary and reliable health care products to light-weight (and hence energy efficient) infrastructure, plastics have been just as transformative in their benefits to humanity as bronze or copper or iron.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Dealing with the horrors of the situation in Gaza within the sterile environment of a call center, its workers are feeling increasingly hopeless, caught in the political crossfire of an escalating situation.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
  • For the first time, a technological tool seemed to truly understand us—not as a sterile database, but as a conversational partner.
    Avital Pardo, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Germfree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/germfree. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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