fertile
Example Sentences
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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
As Ms. Shevchenko’s partner and escort, Mr. Robare honored Balanchine’s fertile inventions with ease and expertise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Frank, the former police official, said those proxies have traditionally used California as a fertile base for financing and have avoided other activities here.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
They needed the rivers to rise in order to spread the fertile topsoil washed down from the highlands, and to enable their vast irrigation systems to fill with water.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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