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not able to produce fruit or offspring
- sterile couples sometimes choose to adopt needy children
- the apple tree turned out to be sterile, never yielding a crop of apples
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free from filth, infection, or dangers to health
- the hospitals in the war-torn city often lack necessary drugs and sterile surgical supplies
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“Sterile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterile. Accessed 20 Jan. 2022.
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