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Recent Examples of sterilize
Our tester no longer found sterilizing a chore thanks to this product.
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Olivia Campbell, Parents, 24 June 2025
The agency stressed the importance of using distilled, sterilized or boiled and cooled tap water when people perform nasal irrigation to reduce the risk of infection and illness.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 5 June 2025
After solarization, however, gardeners need to account for everything being sterilized within the garden bed.
—Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2025
How to sterilize a male mosquito Sterile male mosquitoes are created by infecting them with the bacteria, Wolbachia.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
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Olivia Campbell, Parents, 24 June 2025
The agency stressed the importance of using distilled, sterilized or boiled and cooled tap water when people perform nasal irrigation to reduce the risk of infection and illness.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 5 June 2025
After solarization, however, gardeners need to account for everything being sterilized within the garden bed.
—Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2025
How to sterilize a male mosquito Sterile male mosquitoes are created by infecting them with the bacteria, Wolbachia.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterilize
Verb
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The aircraft's configuration was altered but seating charts were not updated.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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Then there is the matter of changing the art, itself, and the possibility that improving its safety could alter the way the piece is intended to appear and operate.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Still, the studio ultimately passed on the raunchy comedy about a pack of male dogs’ last hurrah the night before their buddy Bull (voiced by Adam Devine) is to be neutered.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
13 Aug. 2025
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Martin’s team was able to neuter Rocky the next day.—
Jen Reeder,
Forbes.com,
11 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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Tasks included repairing barbed wire fences, castrating animals and laying irrigation pipes, the suit alleges.—
Tyler Kingkade,
NBC news,
12 June 2025
Verb
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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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For me, kilts, pearls, shirts on the head, these are all things that were meant to be like, emasculated and meant to look feminine.—
Brenton Blanchet,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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But instead of a random list or a debate over the merits of some teams or players, our hockey writers endeavored for something bigger and more fun: fixing the entire league.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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The premise of a single shareholder buying, fixing, then selling a company has been replaced by what is, if not quite a shadow stock exchange, at least a thriving jumble sale of stakes, slices, portfolios, and side deals.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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