fertilize

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Researchers at Michigan State University have identified a molecular "switch" that boosts sperm energy just before they attempt to fertilize an egg.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2026

But syrup producers do not plant, irrigate, fertilize or use insecticides on their self-sufficient forests.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Whether we use it to fertilize a resurgent democracy, or throw it in everyone’s face, including our own, is really up to us.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2025

Surface water, for example, could have runoff that includes nitrate used to fertilize land in agricultural areas.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024

I had planned to fertilize the corn and the soybeans, which were now up.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien