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Recent Examples of sterilize
Between 2005 and 2013, California sterilized over 850 people in women’s prisons, frequently without their knowledge or informed consent.
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Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Using healthy scions is key, as well as sterilizing tools.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2025
Outdoor cats would be required to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, sterilized and microchipped.
—Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 8 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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However, rulings from another global tribunal -- the International Criminal Court (ICC) -- may have altered Netanyahu's travel plans.—
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This was just one of a great number of changes the couple made to the house over several years, gradually altering the layout of the rooms and adding a bath and an oven as their fortunes improved, thanks to the increasing popularity of Virginia’s work and Leonard’s attentive book-keeping.—
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At Barkside, all dogs must be at least 6 months old and up to date on vaccinations, with those 12 months and up spayed or neutered.—
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Rather than paying a recurring license fee, pets that are microchipped, spayed or neutered, and vaccinated for rabies would be eligible to be permanently licensed for a one-time $25 fee.—
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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By emasculating standards for performance, equity grading has both encouraged and hidden academic dysfunction.—
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The tri-mode seeker shares targeting information among all three modes, enabling StormBreaker to engage fixed or moving targets at any time of day and in all weather conditions, according to Raytheon.—
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Oracle's economics are largely fixed and contracted, with the upside accruing to OpenAI.—
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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