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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

The rule from which they are seeking relief applies to a chemical known as ethylene oxide, or EtO, which is commonly used to sterilize medical devices that can’t be cleaned using steam or radiation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025

He wanted to take control of the building and sterilize it, but he didn’t want lawsuits.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

This innovative technology sterilizes the crops, promoting plant growth without the use of chemical fertilizers.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024

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 sterilizes the efforts of the good men, and gives innumerable openings to the fools and cranks and obstructionists.

From The Message by H. M. (Henry Matthew) Brock

The female flies only mate once, so sterilized males help suppress the population.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

That means the fish aren’t sterilized by cooking before they are packaged and sealed.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

Another group of eight aging mice served as controls and received sterilized fecal material instead.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026

A handful of deer in Avalon, Catalina’s only city, will be sterilized and allowed to live out their days on the island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

Frustrated, he lowered the dose—and found that he had now sterilized them.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

For decades, the U.S. has maintained a program in which these flies are bred in a lab, bathed in sterilizing radiation and released around Panama, which prevents the insect from creeping northward.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

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

I plunk the tools into the sterilizing machine, which will kill the germs so the tools will be ready to use on the next patient.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau