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Recent Examples of sterilizeSterilization technician This worker might be found in larger clinics or in a separate facility, charged with sterilizing the instruments used in patient care.—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2025 Industry Fights Back: Companies use formaldehyde for everything from making furniture to sterilizing food.—Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2024 The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors formally apologized in 2018 to all women forcibly sterilized at County-USC.—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024 Ethylene oxide is used to sterilize medical equipment, and as of 2024, it was used by four facilities in Colorado.—Jenni Shearston, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sterilize
Nothing will alter The Electric State’s disorienting, tone-deaf incompetence.
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Graham Hillard,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Mar. 2025
This is often called DNS poisoning or spoofing in the context of online attacks, and the outcome is the same if it's being done under legal authority: a DNS record is altered to prevent someone typing a domain name from being routed to the correct IP address.
One software developer successfully neutered an attempt to ban the algorithms last year, and this year’s version is undergoing changes and faces skepticism from Polis’ office.
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Seth Klamann,
The Denver Post,
17 Mar. 2025
So, as the consultants neutered the Harris/Walz energy, their numbers faded, and Democrats' chances of winning the election went down the tubes.
This is taking programs that people depend on to save lives and emasculating them.
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Selina Wang,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2025
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.
The best hair gloss treatments can fix that in no time, reinvigorating your style with undeniable shine.
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Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
28 Mar. 2025
These setbacks, caused by systemic problems that can be fixed, ripple through families and neighborhoods and create instability and unsafe conditions for all of us.
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