neuter

Example Sentences

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Others also neuter stray cats and dogs to stop their populations from growing.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

His legislation would also provide free vaccinations and spay or neuter services to the felines.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

It wasn’t my intent to be in it, but more often than not, documentaries neuter and make invisible the acts of their creation.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

To admit facts but strip them of consequence is to neuter the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness standard.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2025

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