sterile
Example Sentences
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Meticulous in his habits and wedded to his routines, George loves the sterile formality of the police interview room, where, unmoved by the emotional outbursts of others, he patiently sifts fact from fabrication.
MIT is an enclave even within the hermetic world of Cambridge academia—a place where complex, bleeding-edge ideas spawn from sterile labs and filthy dorm rooms.
Termites, like many ant, bee and wasp species, live in collaboratives of sterile workers.
From New York Times
Drug users could swap contaminated needles for sterile ones, and access other aid on the side.
From Seattle Times
Beneath their shiny skins, Prosperans are biologically sterile but technically immortal.
From Washington Post
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