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Recent Examples of sterilize
Eradicating the disease is possible 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.
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Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 12 May 2025
And even in the 1970s – only about 50 years ago – young Black women were forcibly sterilized.
—Eva Epker, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Small miracles spare the staff Most Saturdays, Abdallah and his staff are flitting between patient rooms and laboratories, sterilizing equipment, checking on growing embryos and walking hopeful parents through the arduous process of in vitro fertilization.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
After carefully studying the life cycle, USDA scientists figured out a way to sterilize male fly larvae with doses of gamma radiation without hurting the males' abilities to find mates.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 May 2025
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Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 12 May 2025
And even in the 1970s – only about 50 years ago – young Black women were forcibly sterilized.
—Eva Epker, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Small miracles spare the staff Most Saturdays, Abdallah and his staff are flitting between patient rooms and laboratories, sterilizing equipment, checking on growing embryos and walking hopeful parents through the arduous process of in vitro fertilization.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
After carefully studying the life cycle, USDA scientists figured out a way to sterilize male fly larvae with doses of gamma radiation without hurting the males' abilities to find mates.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterilize
Verb
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Read’s defense team slightly altered its strategy, too.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
16 June 2025
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The senators have a chance to reshape or alter some of the provisions of the bill before moving it forward.—
Thomas Wenski,
Sun Sentinel,
15 June 2025
Verb
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In what could be interpreted as a response to Squid Game’s emergence as a global phenomenon—albeit one neutered by reality competition spin-offs and child-size Player 456 Halloween costumes—the VIPs’ return in the final season emphasizes this uncomfortable identification between viewer and villain.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 June 2025
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The country's air defenses are in tatters, its proxies are neutered.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 June 2025
Verb
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Male piglets are routinely castrated without anesthesia.—
Eric Levitz,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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The victims are all male, the corpses all castrated, and each crime scene is signed with lines of poetry by the Argentinean writer Alejandra Pizarnik.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 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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Women in these relationships were cast as disruptors of traditional gender roles, while men in these relationships were portrayed as emasculated.—
Kim Elsesser,
Forbes.com,
5 May 2025
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The company also launched a new secure network architecture called Cisco Live Protect, which is meant to shield your network from an exploit within minutes to give your IT security team time to fix the underlying issue.—
Patrick Moorhead,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Around each level, certain jobs must be completed, like fixing machines dedicated to powering fans or workstations, which can be done more quickly by Fix and Jump classes.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
19 June 2025
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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