sterilize

We press that mash, sterilize it by heating, bottle it and ship it out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Hospitals use it to sterilize medical devices, and some municipalities use low levels to treat public water supplies.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025

“In this case, it is possible that Cesium-137 food irradiators were used in the processing facilities which are being used to sterilize food and instruments,” Vetter said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

We cannot even think much about how to sterilize water before drinking it, because there is no cooking gas and no wood to light a fire.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2024

But while her brother had managed to sterilize his memories, she had only managed to make hers more scalding.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"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

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, is also investigating possible workplace health risks within the Vernon facility, which sterilizes more than 45 million essential medical devices and other items every year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

It infects Xyris grass, sterilizes it and then produces uncanny mimics of the plant’s yellow flowers.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 27, 2021

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

My interior life sterilizes itself by reason of superabundance; the too great fullness causes an incessant restlessness.

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

Huge numbers of male flies were sterilized with radiation and released into the environment.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

That means the fish aren’t sterilized by cooking before they are packaged and sealed.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

All of his belongings, including his favorite blanket, were sterilized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

In 2024, the district launched its pilot, releasing nearly 600,000 sterilized males in two Sunland-Tujunga neighborhoods over about five months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

Here was the Congo, here was Japan, here was Albania, here was Cairo—snippets of the world replicated and sterilized, confined behind walls and fences like animal exhibits.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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

Since 2020, we learned new things about sterilizing immunity, immune memory, and other details of viral infections at a stunning level of detail.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2025

And when I say cleaning out, I mean practically sterilizing the place.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl