inseminated

past tense of inseminate
as in planted
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set the notion that their monarch ruled by divine right had been inseminated in the people for countless generations

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  • Hidden inside the bathroom of her family home was a secret camera — planted by her second husband, a respected local physician.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Loyd, Jackie Young and Chelsea Gray all bragged to Hammon on the championship podium that their plants are still alive — and ran with the metaphor all season of being planted, not buried.
    Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • Originally developed in Germany in the late 19th century, the boxer was bred for hunting, guarding, and later for military and police work, which can make some sense of why the boxer in the video clip was so keen to observe the camera.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • They weren’t bred for their brains, either.
    Bruce Headlam, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • And now there’s a refillable reservoir for the drugs that can be implanted in the eye.
    Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The company has implanted the N1 into 12 clinical trial patients so far; Seo expects the number to grow to 25 by year's end.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Inseminated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inseminated. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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