inseminate
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Male bedbugs also display homosexual behaviour, and even try to inseminate other species.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
She had hoped to artificially inseminate ocelots at three zoos as part of a project to save these small, elegant spotted cats in the wild.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 4, 2023
The reason isn’t romantic: Female termites can’t store sperm, so they need a male to inseminate them over and over.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
But the timing was crucial: Females usually lay two or three eggs and the moment one egg is laid is the right time to inseminate the next one.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022
Use 0.1 c.c. of the mixed liquor to inseminate each of a series of three nutrose surface plates.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)
If a breeder inseminates cows with semen from an infertile bull, the cows will not become pregnant.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Female orcas kept captive in marine zoos can be artificially inseminated to breed more calves, which can later be used to attract more visitors and perform in shows.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
In Switzerland, around 800,000 cows are artificially inseminated every year.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
A UW Medicine physician agreed to surrender his license after a California woman alleges DNA testing revealed he had artificially inseminated her with his own sperm.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Yet in the past Swanson successfully inseminated three zoo ocelots using frozen nonwild sperm, resulting in kittens.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 4, 2023
Richalé married a girl that he had studied with, at the beginning of the same year that Dioneza was artificially inseminated.
From Scorched Earth by Petrovic, Walter D.
And with each insemination costing 80 Swiss francs, that can soon eat up a breeder's budget: a typical Swiss dairy farm spends several thousand Swiss francs a year on artificially inseminating its herd of cows.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Kiken is one of about a half-dozen doctors who have been publicly accused of covertly inseminating patients with their own sperm.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2020
As for Phoenix’s much commented-on speech, yes, OK, he talked about “artificially inseminating cows”, not a subject generally associated with the Oscars.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2020
Currently, Colorado has no specific law against doctors using their own sperm when inseminating a woman from an “anonymous” donor.
From Fox News ● Oct. 29, 2019
Dr Barwin was previously sanctioned in 2013 for artificially inseminating three patients with the wrong sperm at his Ottawa clinic.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2018
