inseminating

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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  • Between June and November, thousands of humpback whales migrate through Brazilian waters, traveling roughly 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) from their feeding grounds in the Southern Ocean to breeding and calving grounds off northeastern Brazil.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • Residents can also request a free backyard inspection from the department's Pest Management team to identify areas where mosquitoes may be breeding.
    Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
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  • As a bonus, those seasons are ideal for planting a replacement shrub or re-establishing a lawn if it is damaged during the shrub removal.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
  • Daugherty recommends planting various evergreens to provide food and shelter for birds over the winter.
    The Spruce, The Spruce, 5 July 2026
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  • The surgical procedure involves implanting a complex, electrical device that allows deaf children and adults to hear.
    James G. Naples, Fortune, 27 June 2026
  • 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

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

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