sterilize

We press that mash, sterilize it by heating, bottle it and ship it out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

San Bernardino County officials approved new deals in April with a local nonprofit to help sterilize and relocate many of the pint-size equines to sanctuaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

I told her to try to sterilize the water, and she responded that she does not have enough cooking gas and cannot heat water more than once a day.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2024

An experimental program seeks to protect California almond trees from a pesky moth by using X-rays to sterilize the insects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024

I can boil and sterilize everything he eats and eats from—just as you do for a baby.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

Before the male mosquitoes are released, an X-ray machine sterilizes them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

This innovative technology sterilizes the crops, promoting plant growth without the use of chemical fertilizers.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024

She also sterilizes the empty jars in the oven before filling, but doesn’t believe it’s necessary to sterilize the bands or lids beforehand.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2021

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

The additional precaution of heating the dried product to 140 degrees for thirty minutes sterilizes it if already infested.

From Every Step in Canning by Grace Viall Gray

The agency also spearheaded the construction of fly-sterilization plants in Texas, which are designed to release sterilized New World screwworm flies into the wild and mitigate reproduction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Another group of eight aging mice served as controls and received sterilized fecal material instead.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026

One theory was that a specific piece of equipment—a drill that Acer used on all the patients—wasn’t properly sterilized.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025

Releasing sterilized male insects to combat pests is a proven scientific technique that’s been around since the 1950s, but using it to control invasive mosquitoes is relatively new.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

The board approved Priddy’s request to have Buck sterilized.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

But with limited budgets and climate change threatening to make the pest situation worse, researchers are studying another yet-to-be-proven approach: sterilizing almost a million moths a day with radiation and dropping them out of planes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

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