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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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Her family was emotional too, particularly her mother, who had also dealt with infertility in the past.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
4 June 2026
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What This Means for Long-term Health Banner Health warns that untreated insulin resistance in PMOS patients can progress to type 2 diabetes, weight gain and infertility.—
Samantha Agate,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 June 2026
Noun
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Shunammite, once so determined to get her period, is staring down the possibility of barrenness and, in Gilead, that means spinsterhood.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
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Clearly, her absurd office dredged its barrenness from her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Sterility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterility. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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