sterile
Example Sentences
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The ’70s were punk, the ’80s were wild, and the ’90s by comparison felt sterile and corporatized, like we were all J.Crew bots, quoting Friends and drinking Starbucks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
The idea is fairly simple: unleash sterile males so that they far outnumber wild ones — say, 10 to 1 or even 100 to 1.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
Nearly three hours, the length of a feature film, shot in a sterile diplomatic holding area at Ben Gurion Airport.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026
Reality, however, isn’t as sterile as today’s popular fiction.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026
“Did you know that sweat is sterile when it comes out of your body?”
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.