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Recent Examples of sterilize
What are the risks of reusing potting soil without sterilizing it?
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Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
This experimental medical treatment of young boys that disfigures them and sterilizes them for life.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Despite some complaints, a plan is currently in place to temporarily sterilize a portion of the animals to see if that will help control the overall population.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The pink dusting will differentiate sterilized from non-sterilized mosquitoes when they’re collected as samples.
—Ryanne Mena, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2025
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Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
This experimental medical treatment of young boys that disfigures them and sterilizes them for life.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Despite some complaints, a plan is currently in place to temporarily sterilize a portion of the animals to see if that will help control the overall population.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The pink dusting will differentiate sterilized from non-sterilized mosquitoes when they’re collected as samples.
—Ryanne Mena, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterilize
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This street corner was forever altered on May 25, 2020, when Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, suffocating and killing him.—
Meg Anderson,
NPR,
23 May 2025
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Modern technology could alter how parks update — or replace — existing attractions, Speigel said.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 May 2025
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One software developer successfully neutered an attempt to ban the algorithms last year, and this year’s version is undergoing changes and faces skepticism from Polis’ office.—
The Denver Post,
The Denver Post,
22 Mar. 2025
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Loki is tabby and white while Onyx is a brown tabby, both are neutered and up-to-date on vaccinations.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2025
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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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In an unnamed city, a man has been murdered and castrated, his body left in an alley.—
Katie Kitamura,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 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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Now, many of these properties are uninhabitable shells that owners have no funds to fix and complete.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 May 2025
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But the systems that seem fixed are actually software that can be rewritten.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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