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Recent Examples of sterilize
Avoid overhead watering and sterilize pruning equipment between use.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025
Steam, blend, and sterilize in one bowl with one-touch operation, so parents can offer fresh, nutrient-rich food without spending hours in the kitchen.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
Still, while trying to locate the bullet in his body, doctors neglected to sterilize their hands or any surgical instruments.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
It’s used to sterilize medical equipment, including at Terumo BTC in Lakewood.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025
Steam, blend, and sterilize in one bowl with one-touch operation, so parents can offer fresh, nutrient-rich food without spending hours in the kitchen.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
Still, while trying to locate the bullet in his body, doctors neglected to sterilize their hands or any surgical instruments.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
It’s used to sterilize medical equipment, including at Terumo BTC in Lakewood.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterilize
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Digital abundance hasn’t really altered that, at least not in my experience.—
Dan Turello,
New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2026
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The biggest change of all, though — one which actually could alter the structure of the show — is the concept of the Secret Traitor, whose role is to provide a shortlist of people whom the main Traitors can select for murder.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2026
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Last spring, the Newsom administration was accused of neutering the regulations that CalRecycle had initially proposed to implement the law.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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At the same time, Iranian leadership is in a vulnerable state after several of its points of leverage were neutered.—
Mitchell McCluskey,
CNN Money,
12 Jan. 2026
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Set in the Italian opera world of the 1700s, Rice’s novel tells the not-for-the-squeamish story of two male soprano singers who were castrated as boys in order to maintain their high voices.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
12 Nov. 2025
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The book follows two men pursuing opera in 18th-century Italy — one, named Guido, is castrated to preserve his soprano singing voice, and the other, Tonio, is castrated by his brother Carlo in an attempt to control their family line.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
12 Nov. 2025
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In the political sphere—an arena that’s increasingly entangled with social media—figures such as Elon Musk decry empathy as an emasculating plague.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Jordan continues yapping about being emasculated and being less of a man for staying with his wife.—
Olivia Crandall,
Vulture,
13 Nov. 2025
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Rather than just fix the problem, the sport might want to identify what exactly the problem is.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Some of the most compelling accessibility tech didn’t try to fix vision so much as translate the visual world into something usable.—
Eric Sullivan,
Scientific American,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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