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Pancho often took him there, teaching Óscar when to fertilize and how to identify deadly fungus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

And “if they fertilize the lawn around the pool, all that water that’s running in there is adding nitrogen and phosphorus,” she says.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

But syrup producers do not plant, irrigate, fertilize or use insecticides on their self-sufficient forests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

Whether we use it to fertilize a resurgent democracy, or throw it in everyone’s face, including our own, is really up to us.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025

And he told the Pilgrims to fertilize the soil by burying fish alongside the maize seeds, a traditional native technique for producing a bountiful harvest.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Dusky farmerfish in East Asia grow “crops” of red algae by assiduously “weeding out less palatable foods” and have effectively domesticated a type of shrimp whose waste fertilizes the algae and boosts yields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Phosphorus from wastewater and agricultural runoff flows downstream to the Gulf of Mexico, where it unintentionally fertilizes plankton.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024

The business-nature of professional sports continually fertilizes that feeling.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

In mammals, offspring are produced when males’ sperm fertilizes females’ eggs.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2023

The chicken manure fertilizes the grass, supplying all the nitrogen it needs.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

He was enamored with the Russian giants, writing in 1953 that “those fertilized by both Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, who understand them both equally well,” have “an always formidable nature, with themselves and with others.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

"In our most recent study, many healthy embryos were still able to form even when fertilized under these conditions. This gives us hope that reproducing in space may one day be possible," said Dr. McPherson.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026

The female carries the fertilized eggs for about 30 days.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

"We have these fertilized eggs from many, many different genetic backgrounds and we raise them over a series of days until we have coral babies, coral teenagers," she explains.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025

The uniformity of the earth’s life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Farmers have mostly had to do their own work turning data from Deere’s operations center into actionable information for harvesting, fertilizing or equipment use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

“We’re probably fertilizing half the acres we normally would,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

“I put a lot of effort into fertilizing it because I wanted to try eating a banana I grew myself,” one disappointed owner told reporters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024

As the Washington Post noted, "Emergency contraceptive pills such as Plan B and Ella work by inhibiting or delaying ovulation, thereby preventing sperm from fertilizing the egg."

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024

Did he really intend to do the fertilizing himself?

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien