infertile

Example Sentences

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Tens of thousands of people, including infertile and same-sex couples, have had babies through the technological advances of in vitro fertilization and the willingness of surrogates to carry those children.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

After these infernos, invasive grasses often took over in hardened, infertile soils.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025

The treatment sent me into an early menopause and it was too late to freeze my eggs, so I was told it's almost certain I'm infertile.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2025

Carrying around little cups of sperm as political protest, to mock infertile people, is most likely a fake scandal, but not being able to have kids easily is rough.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024

Using linkage analysis, geneticists could even trace an actual configuration of genes that evolved to make the progeny infertile.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee