sterilize

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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

The simplest way to sterilize the bugs is to use radiation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

“First we will clean and sterilize the wound.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

He noted that one machine his team is working on — a smart steamer that sterilizes soil — can be used near schools, where people don’t want “nasty chemical stuff.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024

"It wipes out the bacteria -- sterilizes the culture with a single dose of light. And then when you look at what occurs with electron microscopy, you see the collapse of the chromosome."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023

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

This transformation sterilizes the plant, while attracting the sap-sucking insects that carry the bacteria to new hosts.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 9, 2014

It is simply a newly discovered antiseptic solution, conceived by Dr. Alexis Carrel, which sterilizes wounds and arrests infection and inflammation before they have an opportunity to spread and result in blood poisoning and death.

From A Journey Through France in War Time by Joseph G. (Joseph Green) Butler

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

They waited for several minutes while the chemicals penetrated the paper and sterilized it.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

Germaphobic parents will appreciate the UV sterilizing glovebox, if not want to crawl in themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 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

Since 2020, we learned new things about sterilizing immunity, immune memory, and other details of viral infections at a stunning level of detail.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2025

There was a magnifying glass, plus a little bowl of sterilizing fluid.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin