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Recent Examples of sterilize
So, Monaco washed her hands, sterilized the area, cleaned her extraction tools, and gave it a go.
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Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Between 2005 and 2013, California sterilized over 850 people in women’s prisons, frequently without their knowledge or informed consent.
—Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Using healthy scions is key, as well as sterilizing tools.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2025
Others are simply unfounded – the oral doses are meant to sterilize their kids.
—CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Between 2005 and 2013, California sterilized over 850 people in women’s prisons, frequently without their knowledge or informed consent.
—Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Using healthy scions is key, as well as sterilizing tools.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 9 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
Verb
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The charges allege Scholz took an ex-girlfriend's photo from social media and altered it with artificial intelligence software to make the woman nude.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Approval of Evita’s pill is not expected to significantly alter access to mifepristone.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The personality was evidently deliberately neutered.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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This was a dramatic advantage at Bethpage Black, a beast of a course neutered by the PGA of America.—
Hugh Kellenberger,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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
Verb
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And yet precisely this dynamic ensures that commitment between men, the kind of domesticity that David and Giovanni attempt to establish in Giovanni’s room, can only ever be emasculating.—
Garth Greenwell,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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By emasculating standards for performance, equity grading has both encouraged and hidden academic dysfunction.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Vehicle owners are advised to park the vehicle outside and away from any structures and other vehicles until the recall is fixed.—
Olivia Evans,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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So just fixing my diet, drinking a lot of water, stretching, moving every day, doing the right movements.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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