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  • adverb in a sterile manner

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Examples

  • We'll then clean -- prepare everything -- their chest and abdomen sterilely so that we can do the operation without infection.

    Tetralogy of Fallot — TOF Surgery 2010

  • Sean met with them one afternoon in May of 1994, showed them his goods, and showed them how sterile floss segments could be sterilized and packaged sterilely like Band-Aids.

    Sean Dix, The American Dream, And Justice (Floss At Your Own Risk) | Disinformation 2008

  • He would not discover until 1995, that his would be the only sterilized and sterilely packaged floss in the industry.

    Sean Dix, The American Dream, And Justice (Floss At Your Own Risk) | Disinformation 2008

  • Others, at the opposite end of the spectrum, teach addicts how to use drugs as safely as possible, sometimes to the point of providing clean needles and showing them how to inject themselves sterilely.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • Others, at the opposite end of the spectrum, teach addicts how to use drugs as safely as possible, sometimes to the point of providing clean needles and showing them how to inject themselves sterilely.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • Others, at the opposite end of the spectrum, teach addicts how to use drugs as safely as possible, sometimes to the point of providing clean needles and showing them how to inject themselves sterilely.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • If continental feminism cannot, or will not, develop a distinctly political approach to current gender inequalities, then, its critics say, it will remain a sterilely academic enterprise, and as such, it represents a waste of time and energy that would be better served engaging in concrete, specific political tasks.

    Continental Feminism Cahill, Ann J. 2005

  • It was the season when, early in the morning, pupils and teachers resort to the public gardens to prepare for the final examinations under the trees, seeking to extract the sole drop of coolness that is let fall by a sky less ardent than in the midday heat but already as sterilely pure.

    The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

  • Solid Mandala gives a double portrait of two brothers, in which the sterilely rational brother is set against the fertilely intuitive one, who is almost a fool in the eyes of the world.

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 - Press Release 1973

  • The direction in which he was moving loomed sterilely before him.

    Erik Dorn Ben Hecht 1929

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