sterile
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“These are sterile stuff that you’re supposed to inject in your body,” says Pai-Verma.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
We also watched a nurse rummage through a medical waste disposal box without sterile gloves.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
In habeas doctrine, the danger has always been that federal review becomes so deferential that even substantial constitutional claims are transformed into sterile questions of state-court reasonableness.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
Scientists used germ-free mouse models, which are raised in completely sterile conditions without any bacteria.
From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026
I know that pee and sweat are sterile, and that before the universe existed there was no color, no sound, no light, no air.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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