fertile
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According to Nash, at the time of the cave art what is now the Bristol Channel was a "rich fertile plateau" between Gower and the north Devon coast.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
The fertile soils south of the Rhine-Meuse wetlands had attracted pioneer Neolithic farmer-colonists as early as 5,500BC.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
Roger de Bree, managing director and fund manager at Tweedy, Browne, invests with an eye for bargains, and sees Japan as a fertile place to invest.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
“The ‘Turk’ and the ‘whore,’” Mr. Mikhail tells us, were unpopular in New Amsterdam, being outspoken, litigious and—most unpalatably to their frugal neighbors—commercially successful, owning fertile land and a large grove of fruit trees.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Many more vignettes illustrating this and other simple logical errors might be cited, but the point is clear enough: both innumeracy and defective logic provide a fertile soil for the growth of pseudoscience.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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