sterilize

There are other methods to sterilize male mosquitoes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Hospitals use it to sterilize medical devices, and some municipalities use low levels to treat public water supplies.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025

I told her to try to sterilize the water, and she responded that she does not have enough cooking gas and cannot heat water more than once a day.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2024

For that reason, he urged doctors to wash their hands thoroughly and to sterilize hands and surgical instruments with carbolic acid.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

See that she washes and sterilizes her hands thoroughly.

From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by H. Weston Taylor

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

Since 2017, the Department of Fish and Wildlife has removed 7,841 nutrias by trapping them or releasing other sterilized nutria back into the wild with tracking devices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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

He found a plastic jug that contained sterilized pieces of liver from Monkey 053.

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

Mr. van Daan hadn’t gotten the jars hot enough when he was sterilizing them, so Father ended up making jam every evening.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank