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- adjective
unsterilized
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Examples
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One wonders what would be the effect of the nonsterilized population moving into the lands of the sterilized population as the older members of that population die off.
Mass Sterilization, Reconsidered, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In medicine, there was a time when surgery was conducted with nonsterilized, relatively dull knives on patients who were awake.
The G.O.D. Experiments Gary E. Schwartz 2006
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Although pregnancy is unlikely after a tubal ligation, there is a slightly higher risk of ectopic pregnancy, compared with a pregnancy occurring in a nonsterilized woman.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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