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In an Instagram preview to the interview that was posted this week, Tasha K’s edited caption read, “We never accused him of impregnating another woman.. it was only cheating‼️”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2023

Writing in a paper in 1772, the scientist Joseph Priestly described the process as "impregnating water with fixed air".

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2022

“They go against an innocent creature, and why not against the person who impregnated her? Where is that person? He’s going to continue impregnating girls.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2022

Jaime Phillips, a woman apparently working for a conservative watchdog group called Project Veritas, contacted the Post with a bogus story about Moore impregnating her when she was 15.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2017

The former deposits contain arsenopyrite and copper-bearing pyrite impregnating a mica-quartz-schist, adjacent to and in apparent genetic relation with aplite or pegmatite intrusives.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)