impregnated

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The medical profession successfully argued for an exemption from the wet wipe ban, arguing that non-plastic wipes absorb too much of the detergents and disinfectants impregnated in them, with potential consequences for patient safety.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

While the cow is milking, she is impregnated.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2024

The maggots arrived at her doctor’s office impregnated in a gauze pad.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2024

He soon impregnated her, and, living her values, Boebert dropped out of high school to get married and have her first son at age 18.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2023

Both had elegant yellow cedar washboards, ash frames, Sitka-spruce gunnels, fore and after decking made of silk impregnated with varnish.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown