fertile

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After 60 days, all that remains is a rich, fertile soil.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Food stocks provide fertile ground for this exercise.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Cities are squalid crime hives that need to be tamed or abandoned in the Sheridanverse, whereas small towns and Western vistas are quaint canvases fertile with possibility.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

Ukrainians have for centuries been mostly an agrarian nation, plowing fertile black soils and relying on neighbors for physical and spiritual succor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

And even if a Neanderthal Romeo and a Sapiens Juliet fell in love, they could not produce fertile children, because the genetic gulf separating the two populations was already unbridgeable.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari