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inseminate

[in-sem-uh-nayt] / ɪnˈsɛm əˌneɪt /
VERB
impregnate
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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

Continually coming back to a homicidal partner may seem reckless, but the male spiders are wired to ensure they inseminate a female spider with their genetic information.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 25, 2022

In the lawsuit against Summa Health System and Dr Nicholas Spirtos, the couple say that a stranger's genetic material was used to inseminate Mrs Harvey.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 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 J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre

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

Yet in the past Swanson successfully inseminated three zoo ocelots using frozen nonwild sperm, resulting in kittens.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 4, 2023

In 2012, she was artificially inseminated after unsuccessful natural breeding with Tian Tian and became the first giant panda in the country to give birth after the use of frozen semen, experts said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

If then we prepare densely inseminated plates of these two bacteria in gelatine food-medium to which starch is added as the only carbohydrate, the bacteria grow but do not phosphoresce.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

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

They had collected it with the intention of artificially inseminating the females, including southern white rhinos.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 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

Texas, where Emmons-Boring currently lives, passed a law earlier this year prohibiting a doctor from inseminating a woman with his own sperm without her consent.

From Fox News ● Oct. 29, 2019

Larger-scale breeding operations are more likely to use in vitro techniques: inseminating many egg cells from a given cow in a Petri dish, creating dozens of embryos instead of a handful.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2015


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