as in breeding
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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Recent Examples of inseminating
In 1992, Cecil Jacobson was convicted of 52 counts of fraud and perjury for inseminating his patients with his own sperm and was sent to prison.
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Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inseminating
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The report states that the breeding population of bears is expanding into more cities and towns.—
Sasha Allen,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026
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Nuka had lived at the Detroit Zoo from 2011 to 2022, and then was moved to the Toledo Zoo in 2022 for breeding efforts with female polar bear Crystal.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Her playing hard was getting dirty and working the land and planting seeds and cutting the flowers and the vegetables and then taking them and cooking something.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
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The process of planting the seeds straight into the ground is easy.—
Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Feb. 2026
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There are also concerns about implanting even primitive embryo models created from stem cells into anything that resembles a human womb.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
23 Dec. 2025
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For the very first time, researchers captured incredible real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into artificial uterine tissue.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
23 Dec. 2025
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“Inseminating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inseminating. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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