sterilize

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

To address the overpopulation problem, county officials have approved new deals with a local nonprofit to help sterilize and relocate many of the pint-size equines to sanctuaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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

“First we will clean and sterilize the wound.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Before the male mosquitoes are released, an X-ray machine sterilizes them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

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

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024

It infects Xyris grass, sterilizes it and then produces uncanny mimics of the plant’s yellow flowers.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 27, 2021

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

My interior life sterilizes itself by reason of superabundance; the too great fullness causes an incessant restlessness.

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

The agency also spearheaded the construction of fly-sterilization plants in Texas, which are designed to release sterilized New World screwworm flies into the wild and mitigate reproduction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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

In 2024, the district launched its pilot, releasing nearly 600,000 sterilized males in two Sunland-Tujunga neighborhoods over about five months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

They waited for several minutes while the chemicals penetrated the paper and sterilized it.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

The testing of chemicals for a sterilizing effect is much more difficult than the testing of chemical poisons.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson