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sterilize

[ster-uh-lahyz] / ˈstɛr əˌlaɪz /


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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

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

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025

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

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

I imagine each book traveling on a white conveyor belt toward rectangular white stations where robotic white arms dust, scrape, spray, and otherwise sterilize it until it’s finally deemed clean enough to come to me.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon




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