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Researchers credit them with pollinating more than 80% of rainforest plants, including cacao, coffee, and avocados.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025 Use a cotton swab or clean makeup brush to hand-pollinate your plants.—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Dec. 2025 Outdoors, lemon blooms are pollinated by insects.—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2025 There’s also an assortment of private spaces in which to meditate, breastfeed, melt down, and get it together before returning to your desk to pollinate the world with cash.—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pollinate
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