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.
The pyramids have received a new if sterile visitors center, and a walkway is in the works that will connect those wonders with the GEM; the nearby Sphinx International Airport opened in 2020.
“Food insecurity” is the sterile term used by policy experts to describe hunger in America.
From Salon
Barcelona had more of the ball in the first half but it was largely sterile possession and Madrid created the most dangerous opportunities.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
