bearing fruit

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Our reforms are bearing fruit: Last year, the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research approved a record number of applications in a month, the majority of which were for rare diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

In long, meandering speeches laced with peasant folklore, Museveni often appeals for more time, likening himself to a farmer leaving a plantation just as it starts bearing fruit.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

To win back customers, McDonald’s has launched a slew of value-meal combos and standalone deals that just may be bearing fruit — but didn’t for a long stretch.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025

Berlin's subsequent commitment to adapt the law – and make such activities more explicitly illegal – was lauded as "further evidence" by the UK that its approach was "bearing fruit".

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

So many of us bearing fruit, so many of us just planted.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson