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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

However, four weeks after the male mice stopped receiving YCT529, they were able to impregnate the female mice again.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2023

The ruins of Rome, the ashes of her unhappy sons, have, indeed, been entombed, but these remains are so impregnate with life that they may yet accomplish the regeneration of the world.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi

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

"And so this person, whose vile scent impregnates this, has had my soul laid bare before her for her amusement!"

From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Louis Zangwill

It is a micro-organism which penetrates the tissue, and selects and impregnates it, sets it vibrating, gives it /another life./

From The Inferno by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

“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

Bobby Moynihan popped in as the 70-something “Drunk Uncle” who impregnated her and begins to sob as he sings Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2025

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

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

“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

The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster