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Recent Examples of sterilize
The site was home to several dogs at the time, all of whom have now been sterilized by SNiP TCI.
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Do not try to sterilize your experience or control everything.
—Alexi Pappas, Outside, 26 Aug. 2025
It was largely eradicated for decades in the U.S. through a technique in which male screwworm flies are sterilized and then released into the environment to mate with females until the population dies out.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2025
Others are simply unfounded – the oral doses are meant to sterilize their kids.
—CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Do not try to sterilize your experience or control everything.
—Alexi Pappas, Outside, 26 Aug. 2025
It was largely eradicated for decades in the U.S. through a technique in which male screwworm flies are sterilized and then released into the environment to mate with females until the population dies out.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 25 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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The arrests, particularly that of Hall of Famer and Portland head coach Chauncey Billups, altered the tenor of this week’s conversations around the NBA, whose new season had started only two days earlier.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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Treatment supervisors generate a unique model for each river, adjusting for variables as seemingly inconsequential as the appearance of a new beaver dam, which can completely alter the flow.—
Katie Thornton,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Many of the dogs that are rescued must be spayed or neutered, as well as given deworming treatment.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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They are neutered, current on vaccines, have been tested for FIV/FeLV and microchipped.—
Maryanne Dell,
Oc Register,
18 Oct. 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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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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These defendants, which include former professional athletes, used high-tech cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from victims in underground poker games that were secretly fixed.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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That’s a way of fixing those problems!—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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