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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 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

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

The same phosphorus that fertilizes the thriving agriculture of the Midwest is also responsible for a vast "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico near the Mississippi Delta.

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

Scientists have reconstructed a remarkably detailed family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo, tracing their origins back to the moment a fertilized egg first divided into two cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The researchers began by attempting to record development in 100 fertilized mouse eggs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

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 early November, Acacio transferred one of the fertilized embryos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

Then out past the island of Formosa, looking like a giant, well- fertilized gardenia leaf, and across the Pacific, over Hawaii, and now time for California once again.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

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

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

“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

Did he really intend to do the fertilizing himself?

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