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sterilization

[ster-uh-luh-zey-shuhn] / ˌstɛr ə ləˈzeɪ ʃən /


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America outlawed slavery and Jim Crow, expanded the voting franchise, and banned forced sterilization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

They are located in Ontario and Vernon and operated by the company Sterigenics, which provides industrial sterilization technology for medical devices and other commercial products.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

"Animals may receive contraception or sterilization to prevent breeding, creating natural comparison groups within the same environment."

From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026

On its website, the conservancy says it considered and ruled out all of those options except sterilization, which could be used for some deer around the city of Avalon.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

“The first case operated on under the sterilization law” had gone just as planned, and the patient was discharged in excellent health, Bell wrote.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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