fertilize
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And “if they fertilize the lawn around the pool, all that water that’s running in there is adding nitrogen and phosphorus,” she says.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
He said he already had paid $50,000 more than last year to fertilize his corn fields in the past 30 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
In regions north of the Antarctic Polar Front -- a boundary where cold Antarctic waters meet warmer waters to the north -- that dust helped fertilize algae.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026
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
But that was the idea: Give them twenty-four hours to eat the grass and fertilize it with their droppings, and then move them onto fresh ground.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Dusky farmerfish in East Asia grow “crops” of red algae by assiduously “weeding out less palatable foods” and have effectively domesticated a type of shrimp whose waste fertilizes the algae and boosts yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Phosphorus from wastewater and agricultural runoff flows downstream to the Gulf of Mexico, where it unintentionally fertilizes plankton.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
The business-nature of professional sports continually fertilizes that feeling.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
In mammals, offspring are produced when males’ sperm fertilizes females’ eggs.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2023
The animal also spreads grass seed, plants it with his hooves, and then fertilizes it with his manure.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
The 26 hatched chicks were grown from fertilized tissue transferred from hen’s eggs into the new container, which functioned essentially as an incubator.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
The results strongly suggest the crops were fertilized with seabird guano, which is rich in nitrogen because seabirds feed on marine life.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026
They could then be fertilized before journey’s end, and the babies raised “under the tutelage of cybernetic nurses who would teach them their inheritance and their destiny when they were capable of understanding it.”
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
Three eggs had fertilized but none developed into embryos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
We hide amongst the banana trees that have sprung up all around his latrine, even while it gives us the creeps knowing all this lush growth is fertilized by such a disgusting man’s night soil.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The additional effort he puts in—seeding, watering, fertilizing, aerating—is a reflection of his professional work ethic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Likewise if there are animals up above fertilizing, as they are wont to do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Although nitrogen fertilizer was used in the experiment, the researchers do not recommend fertilizing forests.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026
The dung beetle, which disperses seeds as it rolls its dung balls, fertilizing topsoil and enhancing biodiversity and engineering its environment, normally orients itself using the Milky Way and the moon.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2025
“I bought some of the highest quality fertilizing plasma available in California,” Barbour informed him.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
