STERILITY Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

sterility

noun

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as in infertility

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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. —

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 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 But that third element can be overlooked by some venues, particularly in more modern hotels that eschew personality in favor of sterility. —

Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026

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Symptoms may include irregular periods, acne, excess facial or body hair, thinning hair, weight changes and infertility, according to the WHO and Cleveland Clinic.

— Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
The imbalance can disrupt ovulation and menstrual cycles, causing irregular periods, infertility, acne, excess facial or body hair, weight gain and thinning hair.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 12 May 2026