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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

Female sea horses utilize a protruding egg duct to essentially impregnate the male sea horse with her eggs, which he fertilizes and eventually births.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

Min′eralise, to make into a mineral: to give the properties of a mineral to: to impregnate with mineral matter.—v.i. to collect minerals.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

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

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

"And in the shaken plant such power resides, That it impregnates with its efficacy The voyaging breeze, upon whose subtle plume That, wafted, flies abroad."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various

The dew that comes from it impregnates the earth.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe

“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

The medical profession successfully argued for an exemption from the wet wipe ban, arguing that non-plastic wipes absorb too much of the detergents and disinfectants impregnated in them, with potential consequences for patient safety.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

While the cow is milking, she is impregnated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024

The maggots arrived at her doctor’s office impregnated in a gauze pad.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2024

A smell of tender mushrooms, of wood-flower fungus, of old and concentrated outdoors impregnated the air of the bedroom as it was breathed by the colossal old man weatherbeaten by the sun and the rain.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

TMZ previously reported that Pacino had also been shocked by the pregnancy, given an apparent medical condition that he thought prevented him from impregnating another person.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

In April, a jury awarded over $8 million in a civil lawsuit to families in Colorado who had been impacted by a fertility doctor impregnating dozens of people with his own sperm.

From Salon ● May 22, 2022

“They go against an innocent creature, and why not against the person who impregnated her? Where is that person? He’s going to continue impregnating girls.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2022

Extant, which premieres Wednesday night, tosses sci-fi films from 2001 to A.I. to Sunshine in a blender, and serves up a psychologically minded speculative smoothie, complete with impregnating aliens, emotional robots, and vast conspiracies.

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2014

But it is better to apply myself to the task of thoroughly impregnating one point of space with my presence than henceforth to beat my wings vaguely all through infinitude.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson