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neuter

[noo-ter, nyoo-] / ˈnu tər, ˈnju- /


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She added: "Even for a working family that is doing okay, to neuter, chip and vaccinate a cat you're looking at over £200. That's not something to be taken lightly."

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

His legislation would also provide free vaccinations and spay or neuter services to the felines.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

To admit facts but strip them of consequence is to neuter the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness standard.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2025

He maintains Barker’s tradition, advising viewers to spay and neuter their pets, but closes each episode with “I love you” and encourages viewers to take care of their mental health.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

To make hybrids, Mendel had to first neuter each flower by snipping off the anthers—emasculating it—and then transfer the orange blush of pollen from one flower to another.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The 5th Circuit’s ruling neuters a law that Congress enacted in 2020 to impose nationwide standards on the horse racing industry after the existing state-by-state patchwork failed to prevent equine fatalities and corruption scandals.

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2026

As a key oil producer, Saudi Arabia is relied upon to surge output and stabilize markets during crises, but any physical degradation of its export capacity neuters this critical fail-safe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

The group feeds, spays and neuters cats, and places them into adoption.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

Those feelings of rage, and how the bully behaves, neuters and neutralizes them.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2022

This class of nouns corresponds to the Latin neuters in -us, as genus, gen. generis, pl. genera.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright

“The IRS is neutered right now,” Granado-Gomez said.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026

Such clout also made Zhang a potential alternate power center to Xi, who has routinely neutered even latent threats to his dominance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

Maybe it’s steerish, a steer being a neutered bull.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

Dee Terry from Durrington in Wiltshire had her German spitz, Bilbo, neutered last year - but the procedure led to an infection, leaving her with £1,200 in unexpected vet bills.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025

Not pure merchandise as formerly but livestock: bred, neutered.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

These would include vet visits, mandatory spaying or neutering, and ensuring the cats have sufficient food, water and a safe place to sleep.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

Last spring, the Newsom administration was accused of neutering the regulations that CalRecycle had initially proposed to implement the law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

They called for more humane solutions like vaccination and neutering and warned that putting all strays in shelters would lead to problems like overcrowding and culling.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

The mere threat of that — of publicly and explicitly neutering the Senate — could be enough for the GOP caucus to get in line.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024

Joint disorders and cancers are of particular interest because neutering removes male and female sex hormones that play key roles in important body processes such as closure of bone growth plates.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024




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