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sterile

[ster-il, -ahyl] / ˈstɛr ɪl, -aɪl /


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It can feel sterile and as a photographer it can be hard to bring the atmosphere of the crowd and an athlete into one frame.

From BBC

Whether white feels calming or sterile, Malik argues, depends on how it is used and far from being "Pantonedeaf", she sees it as one of Pantone's most usable picks.

From BBC

The researchers used drones carrying sterile petri dishes to capture droplets from the exhaled breath of humpback, fin and sperm whales, combined with skin biopsies taken from boats.

From BBC

By carefully tracking how neutrinos behave, scientists were able to rule out the existence of a single sterile neutrino with 95% certainty.

From Science Daily

About 60 years ago, it was successfully wiped out using a large-scale program that released millions of sterile male flies.

From Science Daily