sterile
Example Sentences
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Meticulous in his habits and wedded to his routines, George loves the sterile formality of the police interview room, where, unmoved by the emotional outbursts of others, he patiently sifts fact from fabrication.
MIT is an enclave even within the hermetic world of Cambridge academia—a place where complex, bleeding-edge ideas spawn from sterile labs and filthy dorm rooms.
At the sterile high-security labs at the Noguchi Institute for Medical Research on the University of Ghana's campus, bat droppings from Accra Zoo will be analysed by Associate Professor of Virology Kofi Bonney.
From BBC
A typical fMRI session lasts at least 45 minutes and requires participants to endure the discomfort of being confined in a cold, sterile chamber that can make some people feel claustrophobic.
From Scientific American
“If in the end it plants the thought on De Beers’s mind to find an exit,” she said, “our diamond resources could potentially become sterile.”
From New York Times
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