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Recent Examples of sterilizeThe site was home to several dogs at the time, all of whom have now been sterilized by SNiP TCI.—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 See All Example Sentences for sterilize
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.
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Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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.
Donkey has now been castrated, and the adorable family trio lives together in a large field with Partridge's other horses.
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Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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.
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.
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Garth Greenwell,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
By emasculating standards for performance, equity grading has both encouraged and hidden academic dysfunction.
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.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
That’s a way of fixing those problems!
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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