sterile

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Behind the glass of a sterile room, two employees in full protective suits could be seen extracting an insulin component from a large vat to send a test sample to a customer.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

The ’70s were punk, the ’80s were wild, and the ’90s by comparison felt sterile and corporatized, like we were all J.Crew bots, quoting Friends and drinking Starbucks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

To unleash sterile male mosquitoes in a broader swath of the Greater L.A. district, officials are seeking up to $20 a year per single family home.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Nearly three hours, the length of a feature film, shot in a sterile diplomatic holding area at Ben Gurion Airport.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

The unoccupied area that the Osage were eyeing was bigger than Delaware, but most whites regarded the land as “broken, rocky, sterile, and utterly unfit for cultivation,” as one Indian Affairs agent put it.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann