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Recent Examples of impregnated
Jerry Perez,
The Drive,
4 June 2026
Ahead of the premiere, Fisher and Wigfield sat down to discuss this season’s evolving dynamics, including the surprising bond between Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) and Ginny, the woman Anne’s late husband cheated on her with, impregnated, and ultimately, left her for.
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Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
Ask your vet about oral medications, impregnated collars, or topical treatments for pets.
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Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2026
Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
18 June 2026
Now, as a parent to two small children myself, Margo’s choice stirred up a lot of feelings for me, especially because this exact narrative — a young, twenty-something woman decides to keep her baby after getting impregnated by a married professor — is also playing out on HBO’s Rooster.
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Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 2026
Dolores Huerta, 95, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Chavez, told the newspaper she was raped and impregnated twice by Chavez.
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Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Apr. 2026
Apollo Records ambient-house longplayer impregnated with weed smoke, working simultaneously from the intractable computer logic of vintage IDM and the loose rules of a jam session.
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Daniel Bromfield,
Pitchfork,
30 Mar. 2026
The cliffhanger of the previous season, which saw Lister impregnated by his female self from an alternate universe, is dismissed with a pre-episode text crawl parodying Star Wars, which irreverently moved way too fast to read.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Mar. 2026
Sgualdo’s feature debut tells the story of 15-year-old Emma, who’s impregnated after being raped.
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Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
8 Mar. 2026
We can be impregnated against our will.
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Paisley Currah,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Dec. 2025
That might still be enough, however, to give her the edge over June’s oldest daughter Helen (Toni Collette), a flighty new age breathing instructor who lives abroad and was recently impregnated by a random Greek stranger who knocks people up for fun and money.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
11 Dec. 2025
Adjective
Autoclave technology takes pre-impregnated carbon-fiber shapes and then cures them under high pressure and temperature to deliver maximum structural rigidity and weight savings.
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Jerry Perez,
The Drive,
4 June 2026
Ahead of the premiere, Fisher and Wigfield sat down to discuss this season’s evolving dynamics, including the surprising bond between Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) and Ginny, the woman Anne’s late husband cheated on her with, impregnated, and ultimately, left her for.
—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
Ask your vet about oral medications, impregnated collars, or topical treatments for pets.
—
Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2026
Verb
Clothing impregnated with permethrin is another option.
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Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
18 June 2026
Now, as a parent to two small children myself, Margo’s choice stirred up a lot of feelings for me, especially because this exact narrative — a young, twenty-something woman decides to keep her baby after getting impregnated by a married professor — is also playing out on HBO’s Rooster.
—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 2026
Dolores Huerta, 95, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Chavez, told the newspaper she was raped and impregnated twice by Chavez.
—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Apr. 2026
Apollo Records ambient-house longplayer impregnated with weed smoke, working simultaneously from the intractable computer logic of vintage IDM and the loose rules of a jam session.
—
Daniel Bromfield,
Pitchfork,
30 Mar. 2026
The cliffhanger of the previous season, which saw Lister impregnated by his female self from an alternate universe, is dismissed with a pre-episode text crawl parodying Star Wars, which irreverently moved way too fast to read.
—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Mar. 2026
Sgualdo’s feature debut tells the story of 15-year-old Emma, who’s impregnated after being raped.
—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
8 Mar. 2026
We can be impregnated against our will.
—
Paisley Currah,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Dec. 2025
That might still be enough, however, to give her the edge over June’s oldest daughter Helen (Toni Collette), a flighty new age breathing instructor who lives abroad and was recently impregnated by a random Greek stranger who knocks people up for fun and money.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
11 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impregnated
Adjective
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Drawn from the same writing sessions that produced Love Is Not Enough, released in February, Hum of Hurt is the darker and more brooding sibling.
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That biography took the form of a dark romance between the self-lacerating Louis and his fiercely loving but brutal maker, Lestat, filtered through the former’s brooding subjectivity.
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He was covered from neck to boots in fabrics soaked with permethrin—a pesticide modelled on the toxic pyrethrin found in chrysanthemum flowers.
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Today, the England and Panama flags looked completely soaked by the time they were rolled up again.
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The pregnant woman went into labor after being pulled from the rubble of the building in the city, which was the worst impacted by the devastating back-to-back earthquakes in the region, according to South American news outlet HCH Televisión Digital.
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In the spring, when animals’ energy stores are low, navigating uncrossable fences can cause pregnant wildlife to miscarry and, over time, result in declining birthrates, the authors wrote.
Verb
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Feeling like finding this 950-square-foot apartment was kismet, Miranda-Martin signed the lease and set about creating a sophisticated and color-saturated sanctuary.
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Spray the hydrogen peroxide directly onto the mold in the shower, making sure the areas are saturated.
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By 2022, thanks to strong advocacy, the laws around gestational surrogacy had changed, and Cohen was able to welcome his daughter in New York.
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House Bill 352 requires improvements to insurance coverage for gestational diabetes care during pregnancy.
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Yesterday evening, two more people drowned while trying to cool off, including a six-year-old child, bringing the number of drowning victims to at least 42 across France since June 18, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
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There, deputies discovered that Bland had drowned her daughter Emii in a bathtub, according to an arrest report.
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In the United Kingdom, there is a midwife assigned to every childbearing individual, regardless of the risk status of the pregnancy.
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Many of them were young women, either pregnant or of childbearing age, when the bombs fell and have lived much of their lives under a heavy shadow of fear and stigma.
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From an acclaimed vineyard named for the shape of the hills behind it, their 2023 was macerated for 17 days and aged in 75 percent new French oak for 20 months.
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Ripe strawberries are pureed for the base, and more are macerated with vodka or tequila and folded in after churning.
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“Impregnated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impregnated. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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