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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

He ran tape through the charger to impregnate electronic setting that would guide the ship on its course to Crystal City.

From Master of the Moondog by Mullen, Stanley

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

The dew of night impregnates the atmosphere of this delightful summer's night with a delicate freshness.

From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Sue, Eug?ne

Now, the water which furnishes the house is in a tank, sided with a composition of lime, and the lime impregnates the water unpleasantly.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

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

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

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2024

In that suit, a couple — also represented by Wolf — claims that they wanted a male embryo but instead their gestational carrier was impregnated with a female embryo, according to City News Service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

The AP published a notarized agreement between former WHO doctor Jean-Paul Ngandu and the woman he allegedly impregnated, in which he agreed to cover her health care costs and buy her land.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

“My body became highly impregnated with the contagion. My eyes were yellow, and sometimes a yellowness was perceptible in my face,” he noted.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

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

Writing in a paper in 1772, the scientist Joseph Priestly described the process as "impregnating water with fixed air".

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 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

There was a mingled atmospheric flavor impregnating everything with an incense-like odor, thoroughly Oriental.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray