fecundity
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Birth control, Ms. Low notes, has allowed couples to date longer, “which is much costlier to women with a shorter period of fecundity than it is for the men.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
Miranda July’s book ‘All Fours,’ about a Los Angeles woman’s reckoning with perimenopause, imagines the end of fecundity as a joyful second flowering.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025
The tests also found that adult male fish exposed to bifenthrin an cyhalothrin as larvae had smaller gonads than the control group, while the second generation had increased fecundity.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
But completely knocking out all these genes would likely harm chickens’ health, as the proteins play a role in development and fecundity.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 10, 2023
Breathing thick marine air that carried the scent of a minus tide, I marveled at the fecundity of the Seattle spring, appreciating its damp, mossy charms as never before.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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The Time Machine
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