sterile
Example Sentences
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Meticulous in his habits and wedded to his routines, George loves the sterile formality of the police interview room, where, unmoved by the emotional outbursts of others, he patiently sifts fact from fabrication.
MIT is an enclave even within the hermetic world of Cambridge academia—a place where complex, bleeding-edge ideas spawn from sterile labs and filthy dorm rooms.
Crystal Rudd's hand ballooned in size a few days after she used a sterile pin to pop a painful pimple on her finger.
From BBC
"They are sterilized through ionizing energy and those sterile males are freed into the fields and when they meet with a wild female, their offspring are not viable," said Garcia Alba.
From Reuters
Atop a hulking Manhattan skyscraper, there’s this gorgeous, sterile apartment that costs upward of $20,000 a month in rent.
From New York Times
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