sterilize
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There are other methods to sterilize male mosquitoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
We press that mash, sterilize it by heating, bottle it and ship it out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Hospitals use it to sterilize medical devices, and some municipalities use low levels to treat public water supplies.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025
We cannot even think much about how to sterilize water before drinking it, because there is no cooking gas and no wood to light a fire.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2024
For that reason, he urged doctors to wash their hands thoroughly and to sterilize hands and surgical instruments with carbolic acid.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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This innovative technology sterilizes the crops, promoting plant growth without the use of chemical fertilizers.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, is also investigating possible workplace health risks within the Vernon facility, which sterilizes more than 45 million essential medical devices and other items every year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Circulating at 380 degrees, this steam not only heats the buildings, saving the cost of bulky on-site boilers, but also sterilizes the hospitals’ surgical instruments.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
Disease should not be a problem because the roiling lye sterilizes the organic material, says Joe Wilson, CEO of Bio-Response Solutions.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2017
Be sure that your dentist is a careful, up-to-date man, and sterilizes his instruments carefully.
From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by William J. Robinson
The Silicon Valley-based tech giant is seeking to release up to 64 million sterilized male mosquitoes in California and Florida over two years, according to a notice in the Federal Register.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
That means the fish aren’t sterilized by cooking before they are packaged and sealed.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
Another group of eight aging mice served as controls and received sterilized fecal material instead.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
All of his belongings, including his favorite blanket, were sterilized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
By the time the program was considered complete at the end of 17 months, 3 % billion artificially reared, sterilized flies had been released over Florida and sections of Georgia and Alabama.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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The most effective strategy involved sterilizing about 22% of adult female koalas each year in areas with the highest population densities rather than applying the approach across the entire region.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
Germaphobic parents will appreciate the UV sterilizing glovebox, if not want to crawl in themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
She chased away fishermen and was sued for sterilizing a neighbor’s goat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
Because when doctors and dentists practiced universal precautions—like wearing gloves and properly sterilizing their equipment—there was almost no risk of HIV transmission.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025
Nonetheless, suggestions are heard here and there that these sterilizing chemicals might be applied as aerial sprays — for example, to coat the foliage chewed by gypsy moth larvae.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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