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Recent Examples of sterilize
For many, these experiments are permanently sterilizing.
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Medical experts have said puberty blockers are reversible and do not permanently sterilize patients.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2024
San Antonio will now sterilize loose pets and increase fines for owners of dogs repeatedly found roaming and who fail to prevent bites.
—Megan Stringer, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
Militants target vaccination teams and police assigned to protect them, falsely claiming that the campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
—Riazat Butt, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Medical experts have said puberty blockers are reversible and do not permanently sterilize patients.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2024
San Antonio will now sterilize loose pets and increase fines for owners of dogs repeatedly found roaming and who fail to prevent bites.
—Megan Stringer, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
Militants target vaccination teams and police assigned to protect them, falsely claiming that the campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
—Riazat Butt, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterilize
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The latter type of metamorphosis creates issues that can’t be easily altered, for instance, shortening a now too-long coat that no longer drapes over a gut.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
16 Feb. 2025
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The courts also found that the government had altered documents to support their arguments before the Supreme Court as part of justifying the roundup and imprisonment of Japanese Americans.—
James M. Purcell,
The Mercury News,
15 Feb. 2025
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He is neutered, up to date on vaccinations, indoor only, and negative for both FeLV and FIV.—
Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
15 Feb. 2025
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He’s neutered down to a bland, depressing facsimile of himself here, a white-bread double-take machine reacting to the theoretical comedic stylings of Nicole Kidman.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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At the end of the clip, the singers decide to castrate the ex in question with a pair of tiny scissors and even pose with sharp objects a la Edward Scissorhands.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
10 Jan. 2025
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The shelter notes that Dwayne isn’t castrated, so his new home should only have other males and/or females that have been spayed.—
TJ Macias,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2025
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Only Adam is so emasculated by the stick, and Peter unwilling to do anything on the day’s shoot other than nod — as previously agreed — that the scene goes unshot.—
Jack King,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2024
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Alternately, this man is taking good care of the home and family for his suffragist wife, but he’s thus emasculated.—
Natalie Kinkade,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Sep. 2024
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The legislature continues proposes to cut their autonomy to fix their own issues and forcing police to become evictions judges and ICE agents while cutting their funding.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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John was the one his family depended on to fix anything.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Sterilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterilize. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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