sterilizer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Kevin Wagner, vice president of the medical sterilizer company Sterigenics, messaged asking that nine facilities emitting the carcinogenic gas ethylene oxide, including near Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Charlotte and Atlanta, be exempted.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Ethylene oxide has been used as a sterilizer since 1930s, and the EPA has been under pressure to better regulate it since at least the 1980s.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
“If a diesel truck goes by, you can smell it. With a sterilizer, you see nothing, you smell nothing,” said Jane Williams, executive director of California Communities Against Toxics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
I bought a baby bottle sterilizer to use after I rinse them out with tap water.
From Slate ● May 10, 2021
While the nurse was expertly tying a strip of gauze around her arm and the doctor was putting his instrument in the sterilizer and taking out a fresh needle, Francie spoke up.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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