neuter
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To help control the population, the city launched the Citywide Cat Program in 2022, which provides funding to help organizations humanely catch cats, spay or neuter them, and release them back into the wild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2026
She added: "Even for a working family that is doing okay, to neuter, chip and vaccinate a cat you're looking at over £200. That's not something to be taken lightly."
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
A German listener can instantly narrow the options, ruling out masculine or neuter singular nouns.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2026
His legislation would also provide free vaccinations and spay or neuter services to the felines.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Gender, a grammatical term for “kind,” describes the ways some languages categorize nouns and pronouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
As a key oil producer, Saudi Arabia is relied upon to surge output and stabilize markets during crises, but any physical degradation of its export capacity neuters this critical fail-safe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
The group feeds, spays and neuters cats, and places them into adoption.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
It truly does set you free because it neuters the power of others’ narratives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Those feelings of rage, and how the bully behaves, neuters and neutralizes them.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2022
From that time on, she is the fruitful mother of every kind of bee life the hive needs; the undeveloped females called neuters and those who become queens by being fed on royal food.
From The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers by Daniel A. Goodsell
During the COVID-19 lockdown, Blair said shelters closed their doors because the facilities were deemed nonessential, and as a result, many animals were not spayed and neutered and many were left on the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Spa has a reputation as one of the greatest race tracks on the planet, but this weekend's grand prix has confirmed fears that the new engines introduced this year have neutered much of its challenge.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Such clout also made Zhang a potential alternate power center to Xi, who has routinely neutered even latent threats to his dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
Maybe it’s steerish, a steer being a neutered bull.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
To my knowledge, no other cat or dog in Coalwood had ever been neutered before.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
These would include vet visits, mandatory spaying or neutering, and ensuring the cats have sufficient food, water and a safe place to sleep.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Last spring, the Newsom administration was accused of neutering the regulations that CalRecycle had initially proposed to implement the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026
They called for more humane solutions like vaccination and neutering and warned that putting all strays in shelters would lead to problems like overcrowding and culling.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
The mere threat of that — of publicly and explicitly neutering the Senate — could be enough for the GOP caucus to get in line.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024
Joint disorders and cancers are of particular interest because neutering removes male and female sex hormones that play key roles in important body processes such as closure of bone growth plates.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
