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Recent Examples of spay
Any of the actions help Project Paws work towards its goal of getting homeless pets spayed or neutered and into happy homes where they can be adored, shares Burns.
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Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Fostering, volunteering, donating and spaying/neutering pets are crucial to managing the kitten population.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
All dogs must be updated on vaccinations and spayed or neutered, Gauthier said.
—Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Outdoor cats would be required to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, sterilized and microchipped.
—Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Fostering, volunteering, donating and spaying/neutering pets are crucial to managing the kitten population.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
All dogs must be updated on vaccinations and spayed or neutered, Gauthier said.
—Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Outdoor cats would be required to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, sterilized and microchipped.
—Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for spay
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spay
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Many of the dogs that are rescued must be spayed or neutered, as well as given deworming treatment.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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They are neutered, current on vaccines, have been tested for FIV/FeLV and microchipped.—
Maryanne Dell,
Oc Register,
18 Oct. 2025
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The arrests, particularly that of Hall of Famer and Portland head coach Chauncey Billups, altered the tenor of this week’s conversations around the NBA, whose new season had started only two days earlier.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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Treatment supervisors generate a unique model for each river, adjusting for variables as seemingly inconsequential as the appearance of a new beaver dam, which can completely alter the flow.—
Katie Thornton,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Spay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spay. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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