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Recent Examples of sterilize
Using healthy scions is key, as well as sterilizing tools.
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Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2025
Outdoor cats would be required to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, sterilized and microchipped.
—Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
In addition, the project also has signed on a local company that sterilizes medical waste.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2025
Others are simply unfounded – the oral doses are meant to sterilize their kids.
—CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2025
Outdoor cats would be required to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, sterilized and microchipped.
—Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
In addition, the project also has signed on a local company that sterilizes medical waste.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2025
Others are simply unfounded – the oral doses are meant to sterilize their kids.
—CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterilize
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Gorman, however, said she is not swayed by claims of environmental stewardship, pointing to the irony of altering Mars’ atmosphere to better suit humans.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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Swift’s involvement in the legal battle relates, in part, to suggestions from Lively that Baldoni altered a rooftop scene at the beginning of the film.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
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The same fate that has befallen so many local-news outlets has neutered the TTT as well.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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More government investment in affordable spaying and neutering services, in shelter resources and in strengthening enforcement of breeding laws would help curb the population of pets that need homes, said Judie Mancuso, founder of Social Compassion in Legislation.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
30 Aug. 2025
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Donkey has now been castrated, and the adorable family trio lives together in a large field with Partridge's other horses.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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The opera premiered in Rome at a time when castrati, or castrated male singers, took on treble roles; a papal decree forbade women from performing onstage.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2025
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Apparently, not in the D.C. Court of Appeals, and our cowardly Congress will rue the day this emasculating ruling remains the law of the land.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Aug. 2025
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He’s not emasculated, there’s no affair on the side, there’s no secret loathing, there’s no immature handling of arguments or true failures of communication with dire consequences.—
Alex Ross,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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Build systems and products that directly address and fix those harms.—
Brandon Aversano,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Yet none of this new global reality means that things are now fixed.—
John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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