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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

He said he already had paid $50,000 more than last year to fertilize his corn fields in the past 30 days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

In addition to rising fuel costs, farmers in the Central Valley say they are stockpiling fertilizer and looking for otherways to fertilize their crops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026

In regions north of the Antarctic Polar Front -- a boundary where cold Antarctic waters meet warmer waters to the north -- that dust helped fertilize algae.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026

But that was the idea: Give them twenty-four hours to eat the grass and fertilize it with their droppings, and then move them onto fresh ground.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

By examining infrared light -- wavelengths invisible to the naked eye -- these incredibly precise images reveal how dust fertilizes the universe after being heated by both massive young stars and surrounding interstellar space radiation.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 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

After four hours in simulated zero gravity, the number of successfully fertilized mouse eggs dropped by 30 per cent compared to normal Earth conditions.

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

Taller than Uncle Turu by a head, it had protected and fertilized our crops and received our prayers and sacrifices from the time of our ancestors.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

The additional effort he puts in—seeding, watering, fertilizing, aerating—is a reflection of his professional work ethic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

“We’ve been fertilizing and watering them pretty heavy,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

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

So little evidence has emerged of Indians fertilizing with fish that some archaeologists believe that Tisquantum actually picked up the idea from European farmers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann