sterilized
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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
Academically, the fact that insects could be sterilized by exposure to X-ray had been known since 1916, when an entomologist by the name of G. A. Runner reported such sterilization of cigarette beetles.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
