impregnate
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Noah is extraordinary because he’s also a Manhunter, created by the alien technology Zoe used to impregnate Kerry.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Male jewel beetles, having evolved to respond to the exciting sight, are known to mistake orange peels for potential mates and die in a fruitless attempt to impregnate them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
When the cow reached maturity, the team unsuccessfully attempted to impregnate her using standard artificial insemination techniques.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
In 2022, a federal court jury in Vermont awarded a woman $5.25 million from a doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate her during an artificial insemination procedure in 1977.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
The doctor," he records, "breathed gently through a tube into a deep glass mug, so as to impregnate all the air in39 the mug with this quality.
From Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert
Some of the plot elements are similar: In Raising Gazorpazorp, Morty grapples with becoming a single father after he accidentally impregnates an alien robot.
From Time ● Jul. 27, 2017
This forced feeding thoroughly impregnates the cotton in the fuel chamber of the lighter, minimizes evaporation, and yet permits Lyterlife to feed into the wick as readily as a liquid.
From Time Magazine Archive
When eaten, the cysts are destroyed by the digestive juices, and in two or three days the adult worm develops; the male impregnates the female and then dies.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a subtle perfume it impregnates the soul of the child with ideas and impressions which it will carry through life.
From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly
Yōd impregnates the letter He and begets a son; and she, thus pregnant, brings forth.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
“The inmate Carroll impregnated is not one of the two victims in this case,” Assistant District Attorney Eric DuTemple said in an email this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
So in January 2022, when veterinary scans showed 25% of his impregnated ewes were no longer carrying lambs, he began to investigate.
From BBC ● May 10, 2025
Gardner played a slurring “Woman Who’s Aging Gracefully,” but it was Nwodim’s portrayal of Charlotte, a stingray who was mysteriously impregnated at a North Carolina aquarium, that won the segment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
The maggots arrived at her doctor’s office impregnated in a gauze pad.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2024
“Or—I’ve been impregnated with a false memory system. Maybe I only remember Garland over the whole time. But—”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
In an Instagram preview to the interview that was posted this week, Tasha K’s edited caption read, “We never accused him of impregnating another woman.. it was only cheating‼️”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
Before Russia launched its full-scale invasion, BioTexCom was impregnating about 50 women per month.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
Writing in a paper in 1772, the scientist Joseph Priestly described the process as "impregnating water with fixed air".
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022
Ngandu was accused by a young woman of impregnating her.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2021
In that year a patent was taken out by Bethell for preserving timber by impregnating it with the heavy oil from coal-tar.
From Coal and What We Get from It by Raphael Meldola
