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Recent Examples of sterility
Indeed, BioNTech stresses that every batch undergoes identity, potency, purity, and sterility tests.
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Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
The place had the lurking sterility of an upscale medical office, with ground-floor windows that showed the shadows of passing pedestrians.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2025
Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
The place had the lurking sterility of an upscale medical office, with ground-floor windows that showed the shadows of passing pedestrians.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterility
Noun
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In recent years thousands of studies have found the presence of tiny fragments of plastic, some smaller than a millionth of a meter, in the human body, which are reported to cause health problems from heart failure to infertility.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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Throughout it all, the couple emphasized the importance of facing infertility together.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Instead, Bevza felt a pressing need to remedy the barrenness of the Ukrainian fashion scene at the time.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
30 Dec. 2025
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Self-awareness and community are marvelous antidotes to the barrenness of conformity.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Sterility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterility. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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