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In 2013, for example, Facebook sought to neuter the rise of Vine, a short-video service launched by Twitter, the FTC complaint says.

She says the Humane Society would like to enforce spay and neuter laws to the point where there would be no purebred dogs left.

It seeks to neuter the criticism of any lurking Paltrow naysayers wishing to transfer their negativity to Lively.

In a land where resources are scarce, and spay-neuter initiatives are only starting to make inroads, this is not surprising.

Take that away, or neuter the violence too much, and enrollment drops.

Pro: “My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working & nothing after all.”

The word mistranslated “greater,” πλεῖον, is neuter and cannot be applied to a man.

In my rendering of this the pronoun "his" must be understood in its old English latitude as either neuter or masculine.

The neuter of Myrmica rubra, another ant, has no ocelli or stemmata, although the male and female are provided with them.

Mtzner translates quia situm est in malo, treating ille as a neuter noun, evil.

To grumble, as Cox pointed out to Mrs. Bouncer, is a verb neuter meaning to complain without a cause.