fertilize
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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
Researchers at Michigan State University have identified a molecular "switch" that boosts sperm energy just before they attempt to fertilize an egg.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2026
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
Joel likes to put his turkeys in the orchard, where they eat the bugs, mow the grass, and fertilize the trees and vines.
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
When the sperm fertilizes this gamete, it introduces the protein cyclin, which then activates the decomposition of the inhibitory protein.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 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 animal also spreads grass seed, plants it with his hooves, and then fertilizes it with his manure.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
The 26 hatched chicks were grown from fertilized tissue transferred from hen’s eggs into the new container, which functioned essentially as an incubator.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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
They could then be fertilized before journey’s end, and the babies raised “under the tutelage of cybernetic nurses who would teach them their inheritance and their destiny when they were capable of understanding it.”
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
Three eggs had fertilized but none developed into embryos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
She raked away our dead leaves, spaded new soil around us, and watered and fertilized.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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’re probably fertilizing half the acres we normally would,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Although nitrogen fertilizer was used in the experiment, the researchers do not recommend fertilizing forests.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026
The dung beetle, which disperses seeds as it rolls its dung balls, fertilizing topsoil and enhancing biodiversity and engineering its environment, normally orients itself using the Milky Way and the moon.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2025
My earliest memories are of being in that greenhouse with Mom, growing our little plant family, following her rules, watering and fertilizing each seed just right.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
