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Recent Examples of sterility
Piercing the sterility of contemporary life with the disruptive transgression of eroticism, Silver’s film features dreamy fantasy sequences that interrupt and disrupt, drawing us expertly into its characters’ sensual and unusual interiority.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
2 July 2026
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.
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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.
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C. Michael White,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
There are also concerns about sterility and consistency, Kobets says.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2026
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
2 July 2026
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterility
Noun
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About 15% of couples in the United States have trouble conceiving, and more than half of those couples have a male infertility problem, according to Yale Medicine.
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Today, the couple is raising awareness about male infertility and encouraging others to speak openly about their experiences.
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.
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Clearly, her absurd office dredged its barrenness from her.
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“Sterility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterility. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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