sterility

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of sterility How was the product tested for sterility, identity and potency? — Alexandra Frost, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026 Loving your work is great, but career obsession can be its own form of sterility; corporations aren’t people, and most employers would sooner lay you off than understand your ineffable you-ness. — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Over four years, Barry transformed the headquarters by replacing the sterility of the white paint with layers of organic materials (rich woods, brass, leather) and designing smaller, human-centric spaces where agents and clients could meet. — Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026 While both undergo steps in manufacturing to eliminate potentially harmful microorganisms, liquid infant formula in ready-to-feed bottles undergoes an additional sterility step to become commercially sterile. — Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026 Scrub technologists and circulating nurses prepare and manage instruments, maintain sterility, position the patient with millimeter precision for complex spine or cranial approaches, and anticipate needs before they are spoken. — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026 After many years of all-white minimalism, the designer says our bodies and minds crave color that speaks to connection rather than sterility. — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2026 Piercing the sterility of contemporary life with the disruptive transgression of eroticism, Silver’s film features dreamy fantasy sequences that interrupt and disrupt, drawing us expertly into its characters’ sensual and unusual interiority. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 July 2026 Costs can be high because peptides are often custom-made and must meet strict quality and sterility standards. — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterility
Noun
  • The disease can cause a wide range of symptoms, including painful periods, chronic pelvic pain, heavy or abnormal menstrual bleeding, and infertility.
    — Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Those people weren’t intentionally left out, explains infertility advocate Barbara Collura, former president of the infertility patient advocacy group RESOLVE that was at the forefront of the four-year push to pass a mandate in California.
    — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • But many assumptions that Stratos’ investors or Utah politicians might have had about Box Elder County – about either the acquiescence of its people or the barrenness of its landscape – have been proved wrong over the past few months.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Shunammite, once so determined to get her period, is staring down the possibility of barrenness and, in Gilead, that means spinsterhood.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026

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“Sterility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterility. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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