How to Use artificial insemination in a Sentence

artificial insemination

noun
  • The calf is the first southern white rhino to be born through the use of artificial insemination in North America.
    Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
  • So the zoo, which has pandas, in large part, to study the reproduction and the preservation of the species, turned to artificial insemination.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Some of the people who took the tests knew they'd been conceived through artificial insemination.
    Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 8 June 2021
  • The herd’s newest addition is a young male named Naveen, who was born this year as a product of artificial insemination — and whose sire died in 2011.
    Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • In the 1980s, two pandas named Fei Fei and Huan Huan had three cubs through artificial insemination, although one of the babies died after just two days.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2021
  • The first and second African elephants in the world to be conceived and successfully born through artificial insemination were at the Zoo in 2000.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The calf’s arrival marks the first birth of an oryx to be conceived through artificial insemination without the need for risky anesthesia.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • In the early days of artificial insemination, bulls would have to prove their merit in real life.
    Maureen O’Hagan, Quartz, 24 June 2019
  • The new cub is hailed as the first product of an artificial insemination using only frozen sperm.
    Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Future is the 100th southern white rhino to be born at the park and the second conceived through artificial insemination.
    USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Each was born in the 1960s and was used as a sire, providing semen for artificial insemination.
    Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • Like its mother, the zoo said, the calf was conceived through artificial insemination, a historic first.
    The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The event was historic because the calf was the first-ever elephant in the world born via artificial insemination from a mother who was also born through the same procedure.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The elephant, which does not not have a name, was born Feb. 17 at the Toledo Zoo after a successful artificial insemination process.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In the comics, Jess got pregnant through artificial insemination as a part of a deliberate attempt to move on to a different phase of her life.
    Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
  • The couple did produce a baby, Lin Ping, in 2009, though this was done through artificial insemination.
    Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Both were conceived via artificial insemination, giving Durrant and the teams working on the rhino project hope for the future.
    Adeline Chen, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
  • But more challenges lie ahead, with artificial insemination of rhinos in zoos rare so far and resulting in only a few births.
    Time, 19 May 2018
  • One of their male pandas, Le Le, helped other pandas across the world conceive babies through artificial insemination, the zoo said.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The cub’s birth marks the first time a zoo in the United States has induced a successful pregnancy and birth via artificial insemination with only frozen semen.
    Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Caleb selects and buys the breeds online at a boar catalog and does the artificial insemination himself.
    Clara Longo De Freitas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 July 2021
  • And that was largely because of how: The two young African elephants were born at the Indianapolis Zoo through artificial insemination.
    Lorena Villanueva-Almanza, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Nonetheless, the birth brings an end to an anxious wait that began in March with artificial insemination.
    Christine Dell'amore, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The two soon decided to embark on the project, and about a year later, Bott delivered the world’s first female reindeer calf through artificial insemination.
    Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Mei Xiang and Tian Tian are the parents of several cubs — all of whom were conceived through artificial insemination.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The research team at the Memphis Zoo developed an artificial insemination process that allowed one of their male pandas, Le Le, to help pandas across the world conceive babies, the zoo said.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Per a press release, the male calf—newly dubbed Edward—is the first southern white rhino to be born through artificial insemination in North America.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
  • And while there’s usually an attempt at mating, this was the first time the zoo skipped straight to artificial insemination since Tian and Mei weren’t signaling their interest.
    Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Both couples turn to artificial insemination as a last resort to have children.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 14 June 2024
  • Sows spend their lives enduring multiple cycles of artificial insemination and pregnancy while caged in spaces barely larger than their bodies.
    Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 4 June 2024

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