inseminating

Definition of inseminatingnext
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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  • Females are not released but may be used for breeding in the laboratory.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • To test the effect of this dysfunctional receptor on the plant’s defenses, the team began breeding the plants for their experiment.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
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  • Consider planting seeds for a second harvest of okra, squash, and cucumbers that mature quickly.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 31 May 2026
  • Try planting a ring of parsley around the trunks of apple trees as part of a fruit guild, or grow a few parsley plants in pots and move them beneath the trees when the parsley starts flowering.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2026
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  • Manipulations include everything from surgically removing key tissues to implanting beads soaked with signaling molecules to injecting DNA into cells to instruct them to make a different set of proteins.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
  • Vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy and depression generally involves implanting an electrical stimulator in the left side of a patient’s chest, where the vagus nerve passes.
    Elizabeth Riley, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026

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“Inseminating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inseminating. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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