Thesaurus results for INSEMINATING

inseminating

verb

present participle of inseminate

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. —

Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025

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This time of year, as calves arrive, ranchers decide whether to retain young cows called heifers and calves for breeding herds, and a big factor is pasture conditions, said Bernt Nelson, an American Farm Bureau Federation economist.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
Affordability issues explain part of the apprehension; increasingly, young people have been priced out of the housing market, breeding a resentment that erodes faith in institutions — and in capitalism itself.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 13 Apr. 2026