sterilize
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We press that mash, sterilize it by heating, bottle it and ship it out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
San Bernardino County officials have made new deals with a local nonprofit to help sterilize and relocate wild donkeys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
San Bernardino County officials approved new deals in April with a local nonprofit to help sterilize and relocate many of the pint-size equines to sanctuaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
I told her to try to sterilize the water, and she responded that she does not have enough cooking gas and cannot heat water more than once a day.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2024
He was inclined to sterilize its contents in an oven and then incinerate it.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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The lab sterilizes about 750,000 bugs per day, then chills the moths to put them to sleep and ships them off to California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024
"It wipes out the bacteria -- sterilizes the culture with a single dose of light. And then when you look at what occurs with electron microscopy, you see the collapse of the chromosome."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023
She also sterilizes the empty jars in the oven before filling, but doesn’t believe it’s necessary to sterilize the bands or lids beforehand.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2021
Circulating at 380 degrees, this steam not only heats the buildings, saving the cost of bulky on-site boilers, but also sterilizes the hospitals’ surgical instruments.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
The regular spraying of apple-trees, in the different seasons, more or less sterilizes the bark.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
That means the fish aren’t sterilized by cooking before they are packaged and sealed.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
Another group of eight aging mice served as controls and received sterilized fecal material instead.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
All of his belongings, including his favorite blanket, were sterilized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
One theory was that a specific piece of equipment—a drill that Acer used on all the patients—wasn’t properly sterilized.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025
The hoosh pot was cleaned and scoured, filled with ice to melt, and once the water was boiling, the surgical instruments were sterilized.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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The most effective strategy involved sterilizing about 22% of adult female koalas each year in areas with the highest population densities rather than applying the approach across the entire region.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
She’s grateful that she had already secured a second job sterilizing medical equipment for 3,000 pesos a month at a nearby clinic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
She chased away fishermen and was sued for sterilizing a neighbor’s goat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
Because when doctors and dentists practiced universal precautions—like wearing gloves and properly sterilizing their equipment—there was almost no risk of HIV transmission.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025
There was a magnifying glass, plus a little bowl of sterilizing fluid.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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