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.
In the language of such security sweeps, areas for visits are made "sterile", but it can also mean in another way that events can feel rather sterile too.
From BBC
Its use in stents and intravenous bags make surgeries less invasive and more sterile, and plastic sheeting, gloves, masks and water bottles aid disaster recovery.
From Washington Post
The company did not specify how many bottles were affected or how the bottles became not sterile.
From New York Times
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