sterilize

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Kluh’s district uses X-rays to sterilize males but there are other methods, such as using genetically modified insects or ones infected with bacteria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

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

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025

Scientists in the 1950s discovered a technique that uses radiation to sterilize male parasitic flies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025

“First we will clean and sterilize the wound.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

This innovative technology sterilizes the crops, promoting plant growth without the use of chemical fertilizers.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024

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 rust fungus Puccinia monoica, for example, sterilizes its hosts and transforms their leaves into bright yellow ‘pseudoflowers’.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 9, 2014

The additional precaution of heating the dried product to 140 degrees for thirty minutes sterilizes it if already infested.

From Every Step in Canning by Grace Viall Gray

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

The government said the emissions are part and parcel of protecting people from “lethal or significantly debilitating infections that would result without properly sterilized medical equipment.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 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

Beginning in August 1954, screw-worms reared and sterilized in an Agriculture Department laboratory in Florida were flown to Curasao and released from airplanes at the rate of about 400 per square mile per week.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

There was no scientific reason for sterilizing the mail just as there was none for quarantining patients.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2023

Mary followed Margaret’s sterilizing rules meticulously to avoid her wrath.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot